Re: PostgreSQL 12 release notes missing breaking change in libpq

Michael Paquier <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:33:10 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.documentation
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 01:12:36PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> In PostgreSQL 12, libpq's parsing of connection string integer parameters
> was made more strict, such that invalid values now result in an error rather
> than being silently ignored:
> https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/e7a2217978d9cbb2149bfcb4ef1e45716cfcbefb
> 
> This change resulted in runtime errors/crashes for some of our customers
> after we upgraded the Heroku stack images to use v12 of the PostgreSQL
> client libs.
> 
> We had checked the release notes, but it's not currently mentioned:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/release-12.html
> 
> Please could it be added?

I think it makes sense to mention that.  Bruce, why not adding an item
about that in the "Migration to Version 12" section?  Was that
intentionally left out?
--
Michael

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