Re: ODBC backward versions

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> > Does removing pre-6.4 code improve the status ?
>
> Yes, it does (IMHO anyway) because it removes a configuration option
> that is confusing new users.

Right. There's even an idea(not mine) to remove
the option by automatically detecting the server's
version. However the option isn't entirely wrong
because users could recognize by the option that
ODBC driver supports multiple server versions.
Unfotunately people are easy to forget that ODBC
driver supports multiple versions even though the
option exists.

> The odds that someone will want to use 7.1
> ODBC with a pre-6.4 server seem very small to me, while we do frequently
> see questions about the 6.2/6.3/6.4 protocol switch.
>
> > The problem is that there has been no maintainer of odbc driver.
>
> That's certainly true. I hope that someone will start taking
> responsibility for this code again.
>

I myself have been using ODBC driver in production
system. The absense of a maintainer has been a
problem for me. Unfortunately I'm not familiar
with ODBC that well and couldn't be a maintainer.
I know a person who could maintain our ODBC driver
other than Byron. I always recommended him to be a
maintainer but he hasn't agreed. Recently I've
fixed some light bugs unwillingly but it's hard
for me to fix complicated bugs. For exmaple it's
very hard for me to check if Ludek Finstrlein's
patch([ODBC] pgsqODBC binding parameters II) is
right. I'm expecting for the person to answer the
question.

Regards,
Hiroshi Inoue