Re: Frontend/Backend protocol changes?

Bruce Badger wrote:
> I do watch this list for any discussion of changes to the protocol, but 
> from Tom's response I guess I should also be looking at protocol.sgml. 
>  Could someone point me to the definitive version of this file so I can 
> monitor changes to it?  Thanks.
> 
> BTW, I think the main reason I got bitten at 7.2 was because the 
> protocol changed, but the protocol version number did not.
> 
> While I'm on the keyboard, I'd like to say how much I appreciate the 
> work that Tom, Bruce et al put into making PostgreSQL the system it is. 
>  Thanks for a really great job.

What exactly was the change?  As I remember, it was something we didn't
think would affect anybody, but it did affect you.

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