On 25 November 2011 07:54, Mikko Tiihonen
wrote:
> <=BE ParameterStatus(binary_minor = 23)
> FE=> Execute(SET binary_minor = 20)
Yeah this was almost exactly what I was thinking about how to retrofit
it, except it might be clearer to have, say, "supported_binary_minor"
(read-only, advertised by
On 11/24/2011 02:36 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
Oliver Jowett wrote:
Can we get a mechanism for minor protocol changes in this future
version? Something as simple as exchanging a list of protocol
features during the initial handshake (then use only features that
are present on both sides) would
Oliver Jowett wrote:
> Can we get a mechanism for minor protocol changes in this future
> version? Something as simple as exchanging a list of protocol
> features during the initial handshake (then use only features that
> are present on both sides) would be enough. The difficulty of
> making an
On 24 November 2011 05:36, Tom Lane wrote:
> Now it's possible we could do that without formally calling it a
> protocol version change, but I don't care at all for the idea of coming
> up with one-off hacks every time somebody decides that some feature is
> important enough that they have to hav
Merlin Moncure writes:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The only way that anything like this will go in is as part of a protocol
>> version bump,
> Wire format changes can only be made with a protocol version bump? Is
> this a new policy? In the past they were just made...f
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Jowett writes:
>> On 23 November 2011 10:47, Mikko Tiihonen
>> wrote:
>>> Here is a patch that adds a new flag to the protocol that is set when all
>>> elements of the array are of same fixed size.
>
>> How does a client detect that this
Oliver Jowett writes:
> On 23 November 2011 10:47, Mikko Tiihonen
> wrote:
>> Here is a patch that adds a new flag to the protocol that is set when all
>> elements of the array are of same fixed size.
> How does a client detect that this feature is supported?
The only way that anything like thi
On 23 November 2011 10:47, Mikko Tiihonen
wrote:
> Here is a patch that adds a new flag to the protocol that is set when all
> elements of the array are of same fixed size.
> When the bit is set the 4 byte length is only sent once and not for each
> element. Another restriction is that the flag
>
