Re: PostgreSQL transition ahead

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 07:24:06PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Martin Pitt:
> 
> > (2) PostgreSQL 8.0 brought a new SONAME for libpq (libpq4), which
> >     removed a few symbols which were only intended for internal use,
> >     but were used nevertheless by some client apps (like "psql").
> >     libpq4 can talk to all PostgreSQL servers back to 7.3 (same like
> >     libpq3).
> 
> I assume applications linked to libpq3 should be able to connect to
> PostgreSQL 8.0 servers.  Is this correct?  (According to a few tests,
> it is.)

Afaik, the postgres backend still supports all versions of the
protocol, so any libpq should be able to connect to it.


Kurt