Re: FW: OID, compatible=7.1 and getBinaryStream() in

From: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
To: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
Cc: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, Alexey Yudichev <Alexey(at)francoudi(dot)com>, "pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FW: OID, compatible=7.1 and getBinaryStream() in
Date: 2003-12-18 00:35:19
Message-ID: 20031218003519.GE9505@opencloud.com
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:17:43PM -0500, Kris Jurka wrote:

> Additionally doing some testing revealed another bug with compatibilty
> version handling. If the user does not explicitly specify a "compatible"
> parameter it defaults to the jdbc driver version. It should instead
> default to the server version the connection is for because a newer driver
> can talk to older databases.

Is this correct? I thought compatible=X meant "behave like the driver in
version X behaved" i.e. it was there for handling incompatible driver
changes, not server-side changes.

-O

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