Re: [GENERAL] libpq backwards compatbility

2016-11-17 Thread Andy Halsall
upgraded to 9.6. Or make it a dependency of the application release that the PostgreSQL platform is 9.6. Andy From: Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> Sent: 03 November 2016 09:35 To: Andy Halsall Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL]

Re: [GENERAL] libpq backwards compatbility

2016-11-03 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Andy Halsall wrote: > Can we assume that the 9.6 libpq library is backwards compatible with > applications compiled against 9.3 headers? I wouldn't expect to have to > re-compile our application against 9.6 libpq headers and redeploy because >

[GENERAL] libpq backwards compatbility

2016-11-02 Thread Andy Halsall
We have a libpq application written in C++. There are existing running deployments of our application that were compiled against PostgreSQL version 9.3. We want to move to PostgreSQL version 9.6. Can we assume that the 9.6 libpq library is backwards compatible with applications compiled