Re: jdbc driver versions.

From: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
To: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
Cc: List <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: jdbc driver versions.
Date: 2013-11-11 11:28:20
Message-ID: CADK3HHJdm3nvQsjtfxivmDABRKiUTWd1Y18J02950CVEoqqhQA@mail.gmail.com
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The driver version matches the JDBC API version so if you use newer API
calls then you need newer versions.
The API defines the interface which changes from jdbc3 to jdbc4, etc,
however it is backward compatible, in other words each successive version
is additive

I suspect it will work fine .

Dave Cramer

dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
http://www.credativ.ca

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:18 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:

>
> The website says the jdbc3 driver is for Java 1.5, jdbc4 for 1.6 and
> jdbc41 for 1.7... if we're not using any of the newer jdbc features, is
> there any reason we can't just use the jdbc3 driver with any 1.5+ JRE ?
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