From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200005021643.MAA20306@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Request for 7.0 JDBC status
In-Reply-To: <4100.957283324@sss.pgh.pa.us> from Tom Lane at "May 2,
	2000 12:02:04 pm"
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:43:03 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>,
	Peter Mount <petermount@it.maidstone.gov.uk>,
	Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>,
	PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>,
	PostgreSQL-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>,
	"Peter Mount (Home)" <peter@retep.org.uk>
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> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> >> Not to bug you Peter, but 7.0 may not wait three days before release.
> 
> > I would vote that this is important enough that it should wait, but no
> > one has raised the issue until now so we haven't discussed it.
> 
> My two cents: I wouldn't object to postponing release a day or so for
> it, *but* if what we're getting is an un-beta-tested driver then my
> level of enthusiasm drops considerably.  I'd rather say "it'll get
> fixed in 7.0.1, after a decent testing interval for the new driver".
> 
> Relevant question: how well does the JDBC code that's in CVS now
> work with 7.0?  If the answer is "hardly at all" then a new driver
> is probably better even if it has lurking bugs.  If the answer is
> "pretty well" then again I'd be inclined to ship what we've got.

As far as I know, no one has it yet, except Thomas.  The driver must
have a domain of org.postgresql or it is the old version.  Only since I
installed Peter's Makefile last week did it become install-able.

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