Re: Provider & DBMS version

[Nick Gorham <nick easysoft com>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> Vivien Malerba wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > As Postgres V7.0.2 has been released, I would like to make the postgres
> > provider work with this new version. However it seems that the communication
> > protocol in this new version has changed a bit. So if the new provider works
> > with that version, it will not work anymore with the older versions.
> >
> > Do you think it would be a good think to have several postgres providers built,
> > one for each postgres protocol backend (for example gda-postgres-srv6.5.x and
> > gda-postgres-srv7.0.2)?
> >
> Is there any way of determining the version being used to compile (maybe
> a #define), and if possible have the code with #ifdef when there is a
> difference in the code? or are there too many differences?
>
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Or of course you could use the unixODBC postgres driver which works to both servers.

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Nick Gorham
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