Re: JDBC index metadata filter_condition

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Mark Kirkwood wrote:

> I'm investigating a Java based schema designer tool which uses the JDBC 
> metadata API for most of its information gathering. I notice that the 
> filter_condition field  returned in the getIndexInfo() method's resultset is 
> always null. It seems straightforward to fix this (see attached patch)
>

Applied to CVS for 8.4 and 8.5.  It's half new feature, half bugfix, so I 
didn't backpatch it all the way.

> I've specified 7.4 as the earliest server version that will try to populate 
> this field - even tho it looks like 7.3 might work (do we care about 7.3 and 
> earlier?)
>

Since 7.4 is the oldest officially supported version, I guess that's our 
cutoff.  I still test back to 7.2, so I adjusted the patch to make it work 
that far back.

Kris Jurka