Re: Forward compatibility of drivers

"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(at)fastcrypt(dot)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(dot)jacoby(at)rackspace(dot)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