I am using the latest relase of postgresql and it seems to work fine. As
far as the dirver I am using teh cvs version and usually getting the
latest every week. I am having some problems with doubles being created
as money. I just made the table first and that fixed the problem. not
sure if that was an orion bug or driver bug.
Matt
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Julian Richardson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following on from my earlier questions about alternatives to Hypersonic, a
> few people recommended Postgres.
>
> Well, I'd been meaning to try Postgres generally for a long time anyway, so
> downloaded the latest version from the site (703) and installed it.
>
> Orion wouldn't run with it, complaining about lack of binary object support
> (fair enough given that looking inthe JDBC source reveals that it's not
> implemented in 703!). Thing is, I was talking to the guy who wrote the
> Postgres drivers and it sounds like there was no stream support in 6.5
> either; this is new in 7.1 (which isn't released yet). But Orion must
> require the use of somthing like this to store serialized data, surely?
>
> So what are the people on the list who use Postgres actually using? Have you
> patched the JDBC drivers to work, or did someone release patched 6.5 drivers
> for Postgres which everyone's installed? Or have you modified Orion to
> serialize data using some other mechanism to the default? I imagine most
> people on the list are using 6.5 rather than 7.0.3? Confusing, to say the
> least...
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
