James William Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The point is to give client authors the ability to authoritatively > resolve ambiguity that may exist in multiversion supporting clients and > to do so without any version specific code(or at a minimum wrt older > servers) or fingerprinting of any sort.
Had we had such a facility from the beginning, it would indeed have that benefit. But unless you are going to start out by dropping client-side support for all extant server versions, you will not get any such benefit; you'll still need retry code. So I still think this isn't really worth the trouble it would take to implement. Also, you keep referring to caching the result on the client side and re-using it across multiple connections --- but you can do that now, so why is that an argument in favor? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster