On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Gregory S. Williamson wrote:
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> Sounds like an excellent suggestion ... we'll get a copy of this release.
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> Do you know of any incompatabilities with postgres 7.4 ?
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> We can upgrade a server to 7.5 and the JDBC, put running some servers
> on 7.4/7.4 JDBC might be, uhm, difficult for me to sell operations (and
> we have only seen this problem in runtime). We might also be able to
> look at certain portions of the CVS code and see what changed and make
> backward patches ? (forwarding a suggestion from our engineering people)
>
You don't need to upgrade a server to use the latest JDBC driver, it has
support going back to at least 7.1. I've produced a patch and set of
binary drivers for the 7.4 series available here:
http://www.ejurka.com/pgsql/jars/transaction_state/
This code has not gotten a whole lot of testing so I'd be careful just
dropping it into a production situation.
Kris Jurka