Re: Is it time to kill support for very old servers?

On September 18, 2017 4:08:21 AM PDT, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
>wrote:
>>>It seems to me that you are looking more for a connection parameter
>>>here.
>>
>> I'm not seeing a meaningful distinction here? Env vars and connection
>parameters are handled using the same framework in libpq. And using
>the env var in the test would be better, because you'd only set one
>value - hard to do within our non TAP tests (i.e. in an existing psql,
>started by pg regress) otherwise.
>
>Or both? I don't really understand why an environment variable is
>better than a connection string. For the TAP tests, you could just set
>the base of the connection string once and you are done as well. See
>the SSL tests for example.

Did you read what I wrote?
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