On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 20:09, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 2020-10-20 18:55:41 -0500, Jack Christensen wrote: > > Upthread someone posted a page pgjdbc detailing desired changes to the > > backend protocol ( > > > https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/blob/master/backend_protocol_v4_wanted_features.md > ). > > A lot of the stuff on there seems way beyond what can be achieved in > something incrementally added to the protocol. Fair enough in an article > about "v4" of the protocol. But I don't think we are - nor should we be > - talking about a full new protocol version here. Instead we are talking > about extending the protocol, where the extensions are opt-in. > You are correct we are not talking about a whole new protocol, but why not ? Seems to me we would have a lot more latitude to get it right if we didn't have this limitation. Dave > >
