Re: protocol change in 7.4

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:22:54PM -0500, Neil Conway wrote:
>         (1) Add an optional textual message to NOTIFY
> 
>         (2) Remove the hard-coded limits on database and user names
>             (SM_USER, SM_DATABASE), replace them with variable-length
>             fields.
> 
>         (3) Remove some legacy elements in the startup packet
>             ('unused' can go -- perhaps 'tty' as well). I think the
>             'length' field of the password packet is also not used,
>             but I'll need to double-check that.
> 
>         (4) Fix the COPY protocol (Tom?)
> 
>         (5) Fix the Fastpath protocol (Tom?)
> 
>         (6) Protocol-level support for prepared queries, in order to
>             bypass the parser (and maybe be more compatible with the
>             implementation of prepared queries in other databases).
> 
>         (7) Include the current transaction status, since it's
>             difficult for the client app to determine it for certain
>             (Tom/Bruce?)
(8) Error codes (maybe needn't change protocol)    - without this is PostgreSQL useless in real DB aplication
(9) Think about full dynamic charset encoding (add new encoding on    the fly)

   Karel

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