Michael Paquier <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 10:58:21AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In short, I think I'm a vote for reverting to the v13 behavior.
> The libpq part is a good point, as it could be annoying for people to
> get a changing behavior once the libpq version changes for anything
> using the older major version binaries once the newer libpq is out. I
> am still in favor of keeping the simplifications in the backend though
> as it simplifies some catalogs and PgBackendSSLStatus, and we know
> that SSL compression does not really matter these days.
I have no objection to the backend-side changes, since we can be sure
those won't affect people until they do a major-version upgrade to v14.
But the situation is squishier on the client side, and I don't really
see that pulling out libpq's support is buying us much.
regards, tom lane
