> > > There will always be people who won't read the notes, or 
> ignore the 
> > > notes,
> >
> > Does anyone want to contemplate hacking things so that the Windows 
> > port reports a different version number?  "0.1" might give 
> people the 
> > right sort of impression about what we think of that port's 
> stability ...
> 
> How about a pop-up when starting up that repeatedly 
> reinforces that this is considered a early port, and should 
> be treated as such in a production environment.  When we have 
> it to the point we consider stable, we remove teh popup?

With pop-up, I assume you mean "row in the log at startup"? There are no
popups for background services.... That can certainly be done.

While at it, it should perhaps also be done for any platform (kernel/lib
combination etc) not confirmed on the "supported platforms" list? The
win32 port is at least known to pass regression tests...


FWIW, I think reporting a differnt version is just a *terrible* idea.
Any client side program (say, pgadmin for example) that tries to
determine what version backend it's connected to in order to know if a
feature exists or not will be confused, in many cases to the point of
being unusable.

//Magnus


Mon, 24 May 2004 10:06:24 +0200
"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>
Re: 
Magnus Hagander wrote:

> FWIW, I think reporting a differnt version is just a *terrible* idea.
> Any client side program (say, pgadmin for example) that tries to
> determine what version backend it's connected to in order to know if a
> feature exists or not will be confused, in many cases to the point of
> being unusable.

If the 'server_version' parameter emitted at startup and/or the results 
of 'SELECT version()' reports something less than 7.5 for a 7.5 server, 
the JDBC driver will certainly break.

-O

Tue, 25 May 2004 01:47:48 +1200
Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com>
Re: 