Using Postgres connection functions

[Boris-Barboris]

On Saturday, 13 January 2018 at 17:58:14 UTC, Joe wrote:
> ...ddb. The latter perhaps has the distinction that it doesn't 
> use libpq, but rather implements the Postgres FE/BE protocol. 
> That's a bit *too* native for my taste. It means the library 
> maintainer has to keep up with changes to the internal 
> protocol, which although published, the Postgres group doesn't 
> have to maintain compatibility from version to version.

Not that it matters, but client-server protocol is actually the 
most stable one, it hasn't changed since Postgress 7.4 (Release 
date: 2003-11-17). It's the language-level abstractions like 
libpq that keep being changed\updated on almost each release.