Re: Interpretability with xDBC specification

Hi Sumit,

You would do well to read the list archives specifically for this
topic. There have been many posts of late.

Dave

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Sumit Pandya <sumit.pandya@elitecore.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>        In this mail chain I propose to make a seamless migration path
> towards PostgreSQL. There are people who like to migrate from other database
> to PostgreSQL. However first problem in that comes is related to feature
> compliance and code-changes for same.
>        Remember that code-change remains as a big hindrance for any
> programmer/company.
>
>        To start with I'd like to propose compliance for JDBC and ODBC
> drivers. Reason for JDBC/ODBC selection is with the facts that
>        1> Specifications for both are into proper place,
>        2> Mostly application programmers communicate with this method
>
>        There are some specification; example setQueryTimeout of JDBC; which
> PostgreSQL doesnot complies.
>
>        Non compliance could be fine at some extent. But here problem is
> when a code which is written for database supporting setQueryTimeout and
> when we planned to test PostgreSQL we got exception from driver.
>
>        To move further require to comment out all that code and then
> progress further.
>
>        Now I propose to not throwing any exception there. It is better if
> PostgreSQL - JDBC/ODBC doesnot honor this method. It is painful to change
> product source-code for this limitation.
>
>        I donot have idea on debug facility in PostgreSQL - JDBC/ODBC. If
> you have some debug-log framework available then such non-implemented call
> could be part of high level debugging messages.
>
>        Please share your opinion/comments.
>
>
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