From: Jeff Boes <jboes@nexcerpt.com>
To: David Wheeler <david@wheeler.net>
Cc: dbi-users@perl.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: DBD::Pg 1.20 uncompatible with Postgres 7.3?
Date: 05 Dec 2002 12:44:55 -0500
Message-ID: <1039110295.26687.106.camel@takin.private.nexcerpt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <808BAE24-0878-11D7-A241-0003931A964A@wheeler.net>
References: <808BAE24-0878-11D7-A241-0003931A964A@wheeler.net>
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 12:39, David Wheeler wrote:
> I chatted with Bruce Momjian about this a bit, too. My idea: PostgreSQL
> should provide functions that do this sort of thing, so that psql,
> DBD::Pg, org.postgresql.jdbc, and PostgreSQL ODBC can just use the
> functions without worrying about the version numbers.
>
> But then, somebody's gotta write the functions, contributed them to the
> project, get them committed, and then wait for 7.4 to take advantage of
> them. Still, it could eventually make such driver metadata requirements
> much more portable across later PostgreSQL versions.
>
So what's the answer? At present, we cannot upgrade to PostgreSQL 7.3
because the DBD code will quit working. I could produce a patch that
solves our problem, but I have no facilities or expertise to verify that
it will work for everyone.
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