Re: driver beta release

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Hunter Hillegas wrote:

> I dropped this new driver in and ran it with Jboss against my 7.4.5
> server...
>
> One of our legacy apps seems to have some 'suspicious' coding practices
> going on... The keys in the DB are int4 but the app seems to use Strings
> everywhere in JDBC...
>
> The old driver sent along the string and it went into the query. The new
> driver seems to be more sensitive to the correct types being used...
>
> Retrofitting the old app will take some time and we'd like to start testing
> 8.0 and the new drivers now. Any way to ask the driver to revert to the old
> behavior for certain applications?
>

You can add ?protocolVersion=2 to the JDBC URL.  Which will make it use
the older un-parameterized method of sending queries.

Kris Jurka