+1 here. I think we sorted out most of the issues involved with protocol
changes between postgresql 8 and postgresql 9 a while back. It might be a
good idea to at least manually verify (with the unit tests) a few older
database versions work with the new driver before making it the default.
Oh and
Hi,
during the current work break I've run a fair number of benchmarks (detailed
on the GeoServer lists, see these threads:
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Some-interesting-optmizations-from-Jonathan-s-load-test-td5095839.html
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/PostGIS-ST-Simplify-over-the-FOS