handle multiple 'formats' for data I/O. Restructure CommandDest and
DestReceiver stuff one more time (it's finally starting to look a bit
clean though). Code now matches latest 3.0 protocol document as far
as message formats go --- but there is no support for binary I/O yet.
of Describe on a prepared statement. This was in the original 3.0
protocol proposal, but I took it out for reasons that seemed good at
the time. Put it back per yesterday's pghackers discussion.
for tableID/columnID in RowDescription. (The latter isn't really
implemented yet though --- the backend always sends zeroes, and libpq
just throws away the data.)
initial values and runtime changes in selected parameters. This gets
rid of the need for an initial 'select pg_client_encoding()' query in
libpq, bringing us back to one message transmitted in each direction
for a standard connection startup. To allow server version to be sent
using the same GUC mechanism that handles other parameters, invent the
concept of a never-settable GUC parameter: you can 'show server_version'
but it's not settable by any GUC input source. Create 'lc_collate' and
'lc_ctype' never-settable parameters so that people can find out these
settings without need for pg_controldata. (These side ideas were all
discussed some time ago in pgsql-hackers, but not yet implemented.)
rewritten and the protocol is changed, but most elog calls are still
elog calls. Also, we need to contemplate mechanisms for controlling
all this functionality --- eg, how much stuff should appear in the
postmaster log? And what API should libpq expose for it?
have length words. COPY OUT reimplemented per new protocol: it doesn't
need \. anymore, thank goodness. COPY BINARY to/from frontend works,
at least as far as the backend is concerned --- libpq's PQgetline API
is not up to snuff, and will have to be replaced with something that is
null-safe. libpq uses message length words for performance improvement
(no cycles wasted rescanning long messages), but not yet for error
recovery.
with variable-width fields. No more truncation of long user names.
Also, libpq can now send its environment-variable-driven SET commands
as part of the startup packet, saving round trips to server.
problems in applications that may have a large number of files open,
such that libpq's socket number exceeds the range supported by fd_set.
From Chris Brown.
correctly. See following thread for more details.
Subject: [HACKERS] client_encoding directive is ignored in postgresql.conf
From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:24:04 +0900 (JST)
believe I didn't notice this before -- once 64k was sent to/from the
server the client would crash. Basicly, in 7.3 the server SSL code set
the initial state to "about to renegotiate" without actually starting
the renegotiation. In addition, the server and client didn't properly
handle the SSL_ERROR_WANT_(READ|WRITE) error. This is fixed in the
second patch.
Nathan Mueller
first, that I missed when checking over 7.3.1, was that the client
method was switched to SSLv23 along with the server. The SSLv23 client
method does SSLv2 by default, but can also understand SSLv3. In our
situation the SSLv2 backwords compatibility is really only needed on the
server. This is the first patch.
The last thing is that I found a way for the server to understand SSLv2
HELLO messages (sent by pre-7.3 clients) but then get them to talk
SSLv3. This is the last one.
Nathan Mueller
"SSLv23_method(void), SSLv23_server_method(void), SSLv23_client_method(void)
A TLS/SSL connection established with these methods will understand the SSLv2,
SSLv3, and TLSv1 protocol. A client will send out SSLv2 client hello messages
and will indicate that it also understands SSLv3 and TLSv1. A server will
understand SSLv2, SSLv3, and TLSv1 client hello messages. This is the best
choice when compatibility is a concern."
This will maintain backwards compatibility for those us that don't use
TLS connections ...
