Re: Provider & DBMS version

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

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?