Josh Berkus wrote: > > I've already offered elsewhere to work on > > writing a random-salt patch for PostgreSQL targeted at 8.1 and this > > encourages me further. I understand that I'd need to be sure it was > > backwards compatible to some extent (do both older client <-> newer > > server and newer client <-> older server need to work? I seem to recall > > only older client <-> newer server had to work, but perhaps I'm not > > remembering right). > > Actually, I think older client <-> newer server is the least critical. We'd > be incrementing libpq for this. Right, Bruce?
Yes, in fact we might need to change the wire protocol version, not just the library major number. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
