Re: Problems with linking against PostgreSQL 8.4

On Friday, December 06, 2013 23:11:40 Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 12/06/2013 08:42 PM, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> >>> I see that the symbol was added to PostgreSQL project in ~2010 and it
> >>> seems to be a problem. Should I expect that newer drivers are able to be
> >>> run against older (still supported by PostgreSQL community) PostgreSQL
> >>> server, namely 8.4.13?
> >>
> >> You need to compile against a newer libpq but after that,
> >> you can connect to an older server.
> >
> > Ah yes, that would be possible, thanks! But still, if that is expected -
> > we should at least check older libpq's via configure.ac and blacklist
> > them, or?
>
> Yeah, a configure test would be nice. Patches are welcome ;-)

I'll be glad, just to make it clear :). Do you want remove support for
libpq 8.4 completely or make configure check for PQconnectdbParams (to
make the code work without PQconnectdbParams)? The later makes more sense
to me as 8.4 is still not dead (and will probably exist in REL8_4_STABLE
branch some time).