There are two or three tests that fail if you go to the latest version of
the JDBC driver, 9.4-1201-jdbc41. I haven't had a chance to look at them
yet.

Ian

On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 1:51 am Jody Garnett <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Torben, thanks for the research :) So Jason it looks like we test both
> geotools and this driver with a newer PostgreSQL / PostGIS combination.
>
> Jason if you want we can ask about using a newer driver (of course your
> downstream applications is free to choose an appropriate driver through
> careful use of maven dependency and excludes).
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 4 June 2015 at 18:50, Torben Barsballe <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> The automated tests are running against:
>>
>> PostgreSQL 9.3.5
>> POSTGIS 2.1.2 r12389
>>
>> Looking at the geotools pom.xml, the tests are still using the 8.4-701.jdbc3 
>> driver.
>>
>> Torben
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We have recently restored automated postgis testing on our build box,
>>> Torben has the details on what versions are used (I imagine it is the
>>> latest since that is what are working against).
>>>
>>> If you would like to build and test geotools and geoserver with a more
>>> recent driver we would be interested in your feedback. The GeoTools
>>> developers guide has some instructions on setting up the "online tests"
>>> used to work against your local PostGIS. The tests are self contained and
>>> will create the tables required before use.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>> On 3 June 2015 at 21:45, Jason Newmoyer <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> GeoServer devs,
>>>>
>>>> I noticed in the 2.7.1 war distro that it is
>>>> using postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc3.jar. I plan on using GeoServer with the
>>>> latest PostgreSQL 9.4/PostGIS 2.1 releases.
>>>>
>>>> I found this discussion a few years back about the topic:
>>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/geoserver/mailman/message/30164784/
>>>> Stating that the reason for using the 8.4 driver is backwards
>>>> compatibility. But from what I understand, all Postgres JDBC drivers are 
>>>> backwards
>>>> compatible <https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html#current>. My
>>>> concern now is forward compatibility. So my question is what kind of test
>>>> coverage does GeoServer have with regard to PostgreSQL 9.x / PostGIS 2.1
>>>> datastores? What would be your concerns about using an updated driver?
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking at configuring a connection pool using JNDI with Jetty 9.x
>>>> and using the latest 9.4 jdbc driver. So I would probably remove the 8.4
>>>> driver from war libs to avoid conflicts.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> Jason Newmoyer
>>>> Newmoyer Geospatial Solutions
>>>> 843.606.0424
>>>> [email protected]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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