Re: Which version of driver to use ?

Thanks Dave,

The connection URL version will be good I guess, I'll try tomorrow.

Cheers,
Csaba.

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 18:25, Dave Cramer wrote:
> Csaba,
>
> Yeah, you can force v2 protocol on the 8.0 driver
>
> just add ?protocolVersion=2 to the connection url
>
> see
> http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/80/connect.html#connection-
> parameters
>
> for more details
>
> re the 74 code : it's in the main server tree for version 7.4 tag is
> REL7_4_STABLE
>
> Dave
>
> On 24-Jun-05, at 11:33 AM, Csaba Nagy wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We have a postgres 7.4 installation with production code running on
> > it.
> > The code is written in Java and uses the JDBC driver to access it.
> >
> > I recently discovered that the JDBC driver we were using is not
> > properly
> > detecting connection problems in the pooled connection
> > implementation to
> > report them to our connection pool. However, when giving a go to fix
> > this, I also discovered that the latest 8.0 driver fixes this problem
> > (I've checked the code).
> >
> > So I've tried to upgrade to the 8.0 driver, but failed: our code is
> > pretty sloppy with the parameter types of prepared statements, and the
> > new driver is very strict about them. Eventually we will fix this, but
> > for the deployed code it's not an option.
> >
> > Question: is there a way to make the 8.0 driver less strict ? E.g. we
> > have quite a few places where numeric fields are set with "setString",
> > and other things like this.
> >
> > Alternatively, have anybody back-patched the connection error
> > notification fix to the 7.4 driver line ? If not, I could do that
> > myself, in this case what's the recommended way of getting the latest
> > 7.4 sources ? Is there actually a CVS branch for it for bug-fixes ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Csaba.
> >
> >
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