From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200005021737.NAA22705@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Request for 7.0 JDBC status
In-Reply-To: <4496.957288462@sss.pgh.pa.us> from Tom Lane at "May 2,
	2000 01:27:42 pm"
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 13:37:43 -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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> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> 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.
> 
> So the version currently in CVS has seen hardly any testing either?
> Man, you really know how to make a guy feel comfortable :-(

Up to then, it was using the code in postgresql.  Now it is using
org/postgresql directory, and they are different.  postgresql is the
6.5.* driver, and org/postgresql is the 7.0 driver.

> Given that, we might as well let Peter have the extra day or two
> to bring the CVS version to the best state he can.

Yea, it had that effect on me too.

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