Re: Stuff for 2.4.1 - Mailing list psycopg

From Karsten Hilbert
Subject Re: Stuff for 2.4.1
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Msg-id 20110327185125.GI2358@hermes.hilbert.loc
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In response to Re: Stuff for 2.4.1  (Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com>)
List psycopg
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 07:25:20PM +0100, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:

> > There never has been a guarantee from the
> > database side that applications compiled against older libpq will be
> > able to communicate with newer versions. Emulating this in the driver
> > only propagates this mis-conception. What has been the problem in the
> > past?
>
> There have been several examples in the not so long story of this
> mailing list, other were in the previous ml. Here's a couple. You can
> google yourself to discover that GnuMed, Drupal and who knows how many
> not public projects have been bitten by the transition to hex.

And, thanks to the help of this list, we've GNUmed has had a
fix out within minutes after learning the reason of the
problem.

Karsten
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