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

Oliver,

Your understanding is correct.  Compatible version controls changes in 
functionality between releases of the jdbc client code and has nothing 
to do with the server version.  So in cases like blob support where the 
functionality of the driver changed in a non-backwardly compatible way 
between versions 7.1 and 7.2 of the driver the compatible parameter 
allows you to change back to the old way of doing things.  This allows 
you to use the newest version of the driver to take advantage of the new 
functionality and bug fixes and gives you a window of time to upgrade 
your code to convert over to the new way of doing things.  It doesn't 
matter what the server version is in these cases.

thanks,
--Barry

Oliver Jowett wrote:
> 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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