Re: Forward compatibility of drivers - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Dave Cramer
Subject Re: Forward compatibility of drivers
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In response to Re: Forward compatibility of drivers  (Robert Jacoby <robert.jacoby@RACKSPACE.COM>)
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I figured as much, so what is stopping you from changing the postgresql jar ?

Dave Cramer

dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Robert Jacoby
<robert.jacoby@rackspace.com> wrote:
> "Better question is why would you not want to upgrade to the latest
> driver?"
>
>
> hehe. It's not a question of "want". =)
>
> Bob
>
> On 6/26/12 1:27 PM, "Dave Cramer" <pg@fastcrypt.com> wrote:
>
>>Depending on what you are doing it will probably work. This assumes
>>you are only doing basic CRUD . It will only use protocol version 2.
>>Of course there's no guarantees. It is an unintended use case.
>>
>>Better question is why would you not want to upgrade to the latest driver
>>?
>>
>>Dave Cramer
>>
>>dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
>>http://www.credativ.ca
>>
>>
>>On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Robert Jacoby
>><robert.jacoby@rackspace.com> wrote:
>>> I have an app that is using the 8.2-504.jdbc3 driver. It's currently
>>>hitting
>>> an 8.3.8 pgsql db. I would like to upgrade the database to 9.1.4. The
>>> benefits of upgrading to the latest driver aside, is using the 8.2
>>>driver
>>> against a 9.1.4 database supported? If not, any idea what landmines I
>>>can
>>> expect?
>>>
>>> I saw backward compatibility notes that the 9.1-902 driver is backward
>>> compatible with 7.2 postgresql+, but nothing regarding forward
>>>compatibility
>>> of the drivers.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bob
>

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