Re: jdbc-42.1-4 drop of Compatible property and useObjects

On 9 October 2017 at 11:27, Achilleas Mantzios <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com
> wrote:

> Hello Jorge
>
> On 09/10/2017 18:20, Jorge Solórzano wrote:
>
> Hi Achilleas,
>
> There is no time frame of releases, but
> ​breaking changes can happen in major releases like 43.0.0, and that can
> be probably the next year
> , and even then, there nothing that stops you of still using 42.x.x, so I
> guess you have time to plan for a refactor of your code.
>
> Thanx for the info, we had problems with postgresql-9.3-1101.jdbc4.jar
> against postgresql 10rc1 server, I guess we might have problems with 42
> against 11 in the future?
>
You may which is why we suggest using the latest driver. It will be
compatible with the latest versions of the server.

> just a side question, why was the original naming scheme <pgsql version>
> dropped ? I mean 42 or 43 do not imply directly the version.
>
>
The original naming scheme was dropped because there is no relationship
between the driver version and the server version. We wanted to make that
clear.

Dave Cramer

davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
www.postgresintl.com