Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

Re: Re: Add minor version to v3 protocol to allow changes without breaking backwards compatibility - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Florian Weimer
Subject Re: Re: Add minor version to v3 protocol to allow changes without breaking backwards compatibility
Date
Msg-id 8239b66bav.fsf@mid.bfk.de
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Re: Add minor version to v3 protocol to allow changes without breaking backwards compatibility  (Ants Aasma <ants.aasma@eesti.ee>)
Responses Re: Re: Add minor version to v3 protocol to allow changes without breaking backwards compatibility  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
Tree view 
* Ants Aasma:

> I had a run in with this. JDBC driver versions < 9.0 with the default
> configuration resulted in silent data corruption. The fix was easy, but not
> having an useful error was what really bothered me.

Same for the DBD::Pg driver.

In this particular case, I knew that the change was coming and could
push updated Java and Perl client libraries well before the server-side
change hit our internal repository, but I really don't want to have to
pay attention to such details.

--
Florian Weimer                <fweimer@bfk.de>
BFK edv-consulting GmbH       http://www.bfk.de/
Kriegsstraße 100              tel: +49-721-96201-1
D-76133 Karlsruhe             fax: +49-721-96201-99

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Fujii Masao
Date:
Subject: Re: New replication mode: write
Next
From: Simon Riggs
Date:
Subject: Re: New replication mode: write