Re: Access a newer Version of PGDB (v13) with an older libpq (v10 x86)

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Wolfgang Rißler <wolfgang(dot)rissler(at)freenet(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Access a newer Version of PGDB (v13) with an older libpq (v10 x86)
Date: 2021-04-30 11:00:17
Message-ID: 93886d70b1b1adfc3fcb1f0b717d015d1a950491.camel@cybertec.at
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On Fri, 2021-04-30 at 10:49 +0200, Wolfgang Rißler wrote:
> we are (unfortunately) on windows with our DB and our application.
> Now we want to switch to a new version of Postgres, because we want to
> use logical replication (to replace our old Postgres 8.3 with
> slony-replication).
>
> The problem is, that our application (IDE MS-VisualStudio, C++) has to
> be 32bit, because of some old 32bit-dll's, which we cant kick out at the
> moment.
> So I compiled a libpqxx with the last 32bit libpq (which is v10).
>
> I tried to access a PostgresDB 64bit v10, and it worked very nice.
> So my question is, could (or should) we rather use PostgresDB v13 (to
> get the newest) or should we stay on PostgresDB v10 (to be more
> compatible to our libpq/libpqxx).

Use the latest PostgreSQL client if you can, it shouldn't be a problem.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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