Re: driver beta release

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?

Hunter

> From: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 05:58:18 -0500 (EST)
> To: <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Subject: [JDBC] driver beta release
>
>
> As the server is nearing release, we've been winding down our own
> development cycle with plans to release the driver at the same time as the
> server. I've put up a new build (308) on the website and we'd like to get
> your help in testing it out to catch any problems before release.
>
> At the moment I don't feel comfortable sending this announcement out to a
> wider audience as we have nothing resembling release notes and the
> documentation hasn't been touched in any meaningful way in over four
> months. Hopefully reading this list you have enough of an idea about
> what's going on to be able to provide valuable feedback without being
> "supervised". Even better would be to provide documentation for some of
> the new features that have been incorporated:
>
> - the ability to customize SSL setups to do things like skip
> authenticaion or provide a truststore from another location.
> - the ability to configure the driver through a .properties file.
>
> Remaining 8.0 items are listed here:
> http://jdbc.postgresql.org/todo.html#Before+8.0+Release
>
> Kris Jurka
>
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