Re: Removing support for v1 and v2 protocols?

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
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> I'm a bit lost as to why psqlODBC does so much of this its self, instead
> of just using libpq. PgJDBC does it because it wants to be a JDBC Type 4
> driver, i.e. all Java code, so it can't talk to libpq over JNI/JNA. That
> concern does not apply to psqlODBC, which in fact already links to libpq
> but doesn't seem to use it for protocol handling.

We tried to port psqlODBC to libpq 5 - 10 years ago. It didn't go
well, and eventually we went back to the original code.

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