James William Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Like I asked above, why does it have to be done in two connection > cycles? I'm assume by connection cycle you are referring to reopening > the socket, or...?
You're right, it wouldn't be necessary to tear down the socket --- but it *would* be necessary to have two network round trips. And the point remains that in most scenarios the client and server will be of similar vintages and so wish to speak the same protocol version anyway, so most of the time the extra probe would be useless. I think you're trying to optimize the uncommon case at the expense of the common case. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly