Thank you for the info. I will give the tests a try with the 9.4 driver.

Jason Newmoyer
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Ian Turton <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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