From: Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>
To: Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com>
CC: List <pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [JDBC] release for 8.2
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:43:17 -0500
>
>On 28-Nov-06, at 10:17 PM, Kris Jurka wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Dave Cramer wrote:
>>
>>>Given the number of patches recently added, and the impending
>>>release of the server, what do we want to do about releasing an
>>>8.2 version?
>>>
>>
>>Outstanding patches I'm aware of:
>>
>>1) standard strings - Needed for correct operation, so needs to go
>>into 8.2.
>>
>>2)
binary transfer - still needs some more work and testing. Will
>>wait for 8.3.
>>
>>3) XA end then join for weblogic - should go into 8.2
>>
>>4) XA autocommit - should go into 8.2
>>
>>5) FAQ patch for XA - should probably be merged into the main docs
>>and have a pointer from the FAQ to the docs.
>>
>>6) Build datasource code with JDK1.6 - will go into 8.2
>>
>>7) NPE in BlobInputStream - should go into 8.2.
>>
>>8) There are several older patches that no one has reviewed (named
>>parameter support for CallableStatement, client ssl certs, ...).
>>With a week or so to go, these aren't going into 8.2.
>>
>>If there are other patches please add let me know about
them...
>>
>>If you or Oliver could review the XA patches that would be greatly
>>appreciated. I really haven't had the time to keep up with all of
>>intricacies of JTA.
>
>I can review others, however the subtleties of JTA are lost on me as
> well. I can review it for general java code but as far as how it
>interacts with XA I'm afraid I'm at a loss.
>>
>>As to doing something like releasing a beta driver? I'm not sure
>>when we'd do that. I could build a new dev release now, but then
>>the above patches wouldn't be included. With the release scheduled
>> for next week and packagers needing to get the jar files before
>>that we need to
put out a final this weekend I'd guess. The lack
>>of testing is disconcerting, but if we delay what will packagers
>>ship? 8.1? If so how could they migrate to 8.2?
>
>As Tom suggested we should put something out, regardless of testing.
> Based on history we will see an 8.2.1 come out rather quickly.
>
>Dave
>>
>>Kris Jurka
>>
>>
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