Re: replication connection and multi-command queries

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 7:37 PM David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 5:28 PM David G. Johnston <
> david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 5:24 PM Greg Rychlewski <
>> greg(dot)rychlewski(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for your reply. To give more context: I am contributing to a
>>> Postgres driver used by a programming language. We are currently trying to
>>> understand what is legal/not legal to be sent through this connection.
>>>
>>> In the documentation it states that the simple query protocol is
>>> followed on these connections, which is why we assumed a multi-command
>>> statement would work. I just wanted to make sure we are not doing anything
>>> wrong and that it is disallowed by design. We can, for instance, send
>>> "SELECT 1;" and receive a result.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>> Please don't top-post. The convention on these lists is to inline post.
>>
>> If you are interacting at the protocol layer you probably should be
>> posting to -hackers, not -novice.
>>
>>
> Or a -bug report. It would be good to show the code you are using to
> provoke the error. But I do see where we document the Simple Query
> Protocol and do not qualify it such that it doesn't take a multi-command
> message.
>
> David J.
>

Thank you. I will give those lists a shot. Apologies for the top-posting. I
think I did it properly this time but gmail is a bit weird. Apologies if
this is not inline either.