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@JelteF JelteF commented Jan 12, 2024

PgBouncer currently only supports protocol version 3.0. However, it was
still accepting connections if the client asked for the 3.1 protocol
version. This is obviously a bug, because PgBouncer likely won't
support the changes introduced in 3.1 of the protocol without
any code changes.

This starts sending the NegotiateProtocolVersion message when the client
asks for a minor version that PgBouncer does not support. Also, instead
of erroring when it receives unsupported protocol extensions parameters
it will include these in this NegotiateProtocolVersion message.

For reference this is the Postgres commit introducing NegotiateProtocolVersion: postgres/postgres@ae65f60

I tested this manually using this patchset that bumps the protocol version. https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAGECzQScQ3N-Ykv2j4NDyDtrPPc3FpRoa%3DLZ-2Uj2ocA4zr%3D4Q%40mail.gmail.com#cd9e8407820d492e8f677ee6a67c21ce

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type = PKT_SSLREQ;
} else if (code == PKT_GSSENCREQ) {
type = PKT_GSSENCREQ;
} else if ((code >> 16) == 3 && (code & 0xFFFF) < 2) {
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to be clear, this was accepting protocol 3.1. It should have been this to only support 3.0:

-		} else if ((code >> 16) == 3 && (code & 0xFFFF) < 2) {
+		} else if ((code >> 16) == 3 && (code & 0xFFFF) < 1) {

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levkk commented Mar 9, 2024

How do you test this? I'm trying to send the protocol negotiation packet while connecting with psql and it always returns this error message:

psql: error: connection to server at "127.0.0.1", port 6432 failed: expected authentication request from server, but received v

which is really weird because when I'm reading the implementation in libpq, it clearly should support v at this particular stage in the negotiation: https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/b0289574bdf1202248201a3143d1459bdf5727fd/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c#L3541-L3548

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JelteF commented Mar 9, 2024

Sounds like you're using a libpq from before bbf9c282ce92272ed7bf6771daf0f9efa209e61b

But even after that libpq will complain. Just with a more helpful message. Better handling is in my patchset here: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAGECzQScQ3N-Ykv2j4NDyDtrPPc3FpRoa%3DLZ-2Uj2ocA4zr%3D4Q%40mail.gmail.com#cd9e8407820d492e8f677ee6a67c21ce

@JelteF JelteF force-pushed the better-protocol-version-handling branch from f0004d7 to bfd7660 Compare May 6, 2024 09:42
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This is done so we can introduce PKT_STARTUP_V4 in a follow up commit.
Passing NULL to memcpy is undefined behaviour, even if len is 0. This
avoids doing that that, so it starts to allow passing NULL as the data
pointer if len is 0.
PgBouncer currently only supports protocol version 3.0. However, it was
still accepting connections if the client asked for the 3.1 protocol
version. This is obviously a bug.

This starts sending the NegotiateProtocolVersion message when the client
asks for a minor version that PgBouncer does not support. Also, instead
of erroring when it receives unsupported protocol extensions parameters
it will include these in this NegotiateProtocolVersion message.
@JelteF JelteF force-pushed the better-protocol-version-handling branch from bfd7660 to 6a39179 Compare May 6, 2024 09:46
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@JelteF JelteF merged commit 3f6b3dc into pgbouncer:master May 6, 2024
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Jun 5, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Jun 5, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Jun 5, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Jun 21, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Jun 21, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Jun 21, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Jun 24, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Jun 24, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Jun 24, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Jun 26, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Jun 28, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Jun 30, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Jul 2, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Jul 4, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Jul 5, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Jul 7, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Aug 14, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Dec 23, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Dec 23, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Dec 23, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Dec 23, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Dec 23, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Dec 26, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Dec 29, 2024
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Jan 1, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Jan 5, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/pgbouncer that referenced this pull request Jan 7, 2025
JelteF added a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 9, 2025
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Jan 11, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Jan 14, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
rajaryanece pushed a commit to rajaryanece/pgbouncer that referenced this pull request Jan 16, 2025
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Feb 18, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Feb 18, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Feb 19, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Feb 22, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Feb 22, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Feb 22, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Feb 22, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Feb 24, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Feb 27, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
JelteF added a commit to JelteF/postgres that referenced this pull request Mar 1, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Mar 1, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Mar 4, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Mar 7, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
postgresql-cfbot pushed a commit to postgresql-cfbot/postgresql that referenced this pull request Mar 9, 2025
In preparation of new additions to the protocol in a follow up commit
this bumps the minor protocol version number. Instead of bumping the
version number to 3.1, which would be the next minor version, we skip
that one and bump straight to 3.2. The reason for this is that many
PgBouncer releases have, due to an off-by-one bug, reported 3.1 as
supported[1]. These versions would interpret 3.1 as equivalent to 3.0. So
if we would now add extra messages to the 3.1 protocol, clients would
succeed to connect to PgBouncer, but would then cause connection
failures when sending such new messages.

So instead of bumping to 3.1, we bump the protocol version to 3.2, for
which these buggy PgBouncer releases will correctly close the connection
at the startup packet. It's a bit strange to skip a version number due
to a bug in a third-party application, but PgBouncer is used widely
enough that it seems worth it to not cause user confusion when
connecting to recent versions of it. Especially since skipping a single
minor version number in the protocol versioning doesn't really cost us
anything. So, while this is not the most theoretically sound decission,
it is the most pragmatic one.

[1]: pgbouncer/pgbouncer#1007
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