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Re: Versions: msg#00057

Subject: Re: Versions
Il giorno mar, 13/09/2005 alle 10.02 -0700, Tim Roberts ha scritto:
> Is there a document somewhere on the website that talks about which 
> Postgres versions are supported by which psycopg versions?  The only 
> page I could find lists one Postgres version per psycopg version.  For 
> example, 2.0beta4 is shown with Postgres 8.0.
> 
> Here's the impetus for my question.  I decided yesterday that I wanted 
> to play with the "dabo" Python application framework.  This eventually 
> led to one of the typical open source "cascading upgrade" disasters.  
> Dabo only works with psycopg2, so I had to install that.  Once I did 
> that, I couldn't get psycopg to connect to one of my Postgres servers; 
> it failed during "connect" when fetching the client_encoding.
> 
> After much experimentation and gnashing of teeth, I discovered that it 
> worked fine on another server, which was running Postgres 7.3.1.  My 
> first server was running 7.1.  I upgraded the first server to 7.3.10, 
> and now all is well again.

psycopg 1 used to support any postgresql 7.x and psycopg 2 was supposed
to do the same. At some point I introduced support for encodings
(postgresql 7.3+) but nobody ever reported that as a bug. I am sorry for
your force upgrade, but going back now would be very difficult.

federico

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