Re: Issue with libpq < 8.4

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> Le 24/08/2010 13:51, Dave Page a écrit :
>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
>> wrote:
>>> Actually, what happens if we try to use PQconnect() with
>>> applicaiton_name on an older version? I assume it fails, and not just
>>> works and ignores it?
>>
>> iirc, yes.
>>
>
> We have this in the log:
>
> FATAL:  unrecognized configuration parameter "application_name"
>
> And then it connects.
>
> At least with a 9.0 libpq and a 8.3.0 PostgreSQL server.

Yeah, the interesting thing would be an 8.3 libpq, if you just throw
it the connection string and don't try to use PQparseconnInfo().

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