On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:12:23 +0100, Giovanni Giorgi
<giovanni.giorgi at siforge.org> wrote:
> Jimmie Houchin ha scritto  in data 04/01/2005 7.04:
> 
> > [...]
> > I haven't tried Squeak and PostgreSQL yet, but will the PostgreSQL
> > driver work with the coming 8.0 release? Or is a driver that will in
> > the works?
> 
> As far as I know, the Postgres driver of squeak support an old protocol.
> It should work with the 7.x and (I hope) even with the 8.x.
> I will  try the 7.x driver in the next weeks, and I will post my
> impression to the list...
> bye bye
> 

The PostgreSQL driver uses the 2.5 protocol instead of the 3.0
protocol, but the newer versions of PostgreSQL support it fine. I used
the current Squeak driver with 7.4.6 for a MASSIVE project this past
semester, and it worked very well, even under a heavy load. It also
worked on the 8.0 alpha stream in light testing, but PostgreSQL logged
a warning that the 2.5 protocol is outdated. I also did not test this
configuration extensivley, so there may have been issues I didn't
catch. The only component that's missing functionality-wise that I
noticed--and it doesn't work on 7 or 8--is MD5 password
authentication. Adding it is on my ever-growing TODO list, but if you
want to add it, it would be a relatively trivial modification to the
state machine.

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Benjamin Pollack