Re: Re: Add minor version to v3 protocol to allow changes without breaking backwards compatibility
Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Ants Aasma <ants.aasma@eesti.ee>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Mikko Tiihonen <mikko.tiihonen@nitorcreations.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-01-23T09:03:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* 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