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. -- Jeff Boes vox 616.226.9550 ext 24 Database Engineer fax 616.349.9076 Nexcerpt, Inc. http://www.nexcerpt.com ...Nexcerpt... Extend your Expertise
