Re: [hibernate-team] PostgreSQLDialect

Tom Dunstan wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007 2:13 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
>>> Oh, that's nice. Unfortunately, though. it only seems to support major
>>> version number differentiation as an int. Apparently the idea that you
>>> might have a version number like 8.3 didn't occur to whoever wrote it,
>>> although to be fair it looks like the only implementation that
>>> actually uses it is Oracle, where that assumption probably holds.
>>> Probably wouldn't be that hard to hack to our purposes though...
>>>
>> 800, 801 ...
>>
>
> Nice try :), but as I read the javadoc for DialectFactory it seems to
> suggest that hibernate gets the major number from our JDBC driver,
> which dutifully reports it as 8. I doubt that we're suggesting hacking
> the JDBC driver to lie just to get around this wrinkle when the
> obvious solution is to submit a patch to hibernate that makes it pass
> both major and minor numbers through, and the Oracle code could
> happily ignore the latter.
>
>
>

OK.

It's probably time to take this discussion off -hackers, I think.

cheers

andrew