The biggest change in the newer drivers is to handle the postgresql
client/server protocol changes that occurred in postgresql 9. As far as i
can tell this really only affects your data if you store blob columns as
the default encoding has changed.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Douglas Rapp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> My question is: is there a reason why this older driver is still being
>> distributed with the latest stable Geoserver releases? Additionally, are
>> there any known incompatibilities that I should be aware of before I go
>> ahead and try using this newer driver?
>>
>
> A few:
> - the newer drivers were consistently slower than the one we ship in
> benchmarks (a few years ago, haven't checked lately)
> - GeoServer needs also to work with older versions of PostgreSQL, not
> clear what the newer drivers support
>
> I believe the driver version was made configurable on geotools trunk, but
> I believe the default version
> remained the same, have a look at the geotools-devel mailing list
> archives, there is some discussion there
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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