On 4 Mar 2002 at 8:10, Janning Vygen wrote: > So i am saving the schema version inside the databse. Is it a good > idea? or is it nonsens and there is a much better way how to do it?
I have a system table. One of the fields is the database version. If I change the schema, I modify the version. The applications knows what version it can run with. If it finds an older version, it reports this ot the user and suggests they upgrade their database. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
