Re: Timestamps without time zone

Στις Wednesday 09 January 2008 17:42:57 ο/η Tom Lane έγραψε:
> Achilleas Mantzios <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com> writes:
> > Wednesday 09 January 2008 15:05:24 / Oliver Jowett :
> >> Ah, there is your problem then. That is a very old driver and had
> >> problems with exactly the case you're trying to use (setTimestamp() with
> >> a Calendar), amongst many other bugs.
> >
> > Just a comment:
> > Why not merge from current changes/bugfixes to the JDBC?
> > I mean 7.4 is old ok, but *officially supported* also!
>
> Back-patching this type of behavioral change would be a seriously bad
> idea, because it would break applications that are expecting the old
> behavior.
That is true indeed, but on the other hand a lot of people write extremely
buggy code (and some times intentionally as in my case) in order to deal
with those old JDBC drivers bugs. I mean those people would have to face
the reality sooner or later when upgrading to 8.x, why not force them to take
the action earlier, when, in addition, the new correct behaviour adheres to
the JDBC spec, whereas the old one didnt?
>
> regards, tom lane

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Achilleas Mantzios