Re: Protocol forced to V2 in low-memory conditions?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Maciek Sakrejda <m(dot)sakrejda(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Protocol forced to V2 in low-memory conditions?
Date: 2013-09-10 13:53:15
Message-ID: 17763.1378821195@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2013-09-10 12:31:22 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> I've been thinking of late that it might be time to retire libpq's
>>> support for V2 protocol (other than in the specific context of the first
>>> error message received while trying to make a connection).

>> It's probably worth polling for that. I believe the jdbc driver at
>> least has code for it, but I don't know if it's a requirement at this
>> point.

> Yes, it has code for it and I think it's still used pretty frequently to
> circumvent prepared statement planning problems (misestimation,
> indeterminate types). So I think we need convincing reasons to break
> their usage.

Note that I was proposing removing libpq's support for V2 connections.
Not the backend's.

regards, tom lane

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