Larry,
As co-maintainer I second Barry's suggestion. I certainly am aware of
many more bugs that were fixed than we have possibly created. I also
routinely use beta drivers in production.
Dave
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 13:36, Barry Lind wrote:
> Larry,
>
> Larry LeFever wrote:
> >
> > I didn't realize until just today that the latest stable version of the driver
> > seems to have a problem with TIMESTAMP (or do I have a
> > configuration-problem?).
> >
>
> The problem is that the 7.2 driver has a bug with understanding the
> extra precision in the seconds. In 7.1 the database only really
> supported 9.99 for precision, but 7.2 can support upto 9.999999. One
> way to work around this problem is to create your columns with less
> precision. So instead of:
> create table foo (col_a timestamp)
> use:
> create table foo (col_a timestamp(2)) - where two is two decimal digits
> of precision
>
> >
> > I'm reluctant to use third-party beta-code on the current project; it handles
> > "other people's money" and financial accounts.
> >
>
> I understand your reluctance, but 7.3 goes RC1 today. And I personally
> feel that the 7.3 driver is better than the 7.2 version. And I am
> currently running it on one production system. (Of course as a
> maintainer of the driver I probably should be using in it production
> before anyone else :-)
>
> > BTW, if this project could count on really speedy bug-fix responses from
> > postgres-developers (or specifically from postgres JDBC-driver developers),
> > perhaps use of 7.3 beta 3 in our production version would be worth the risk --
> > though that would ultimately not be for me to say.
>
> If you go the 7.3 route, use something more current thant beta3. There
> have been some fixes since beta3, one of which is very important. I
> will try to get RC1 builds posted to the website over the weekend, else
> you can build from CVS.
>
> thanks,
> --Barry
>
>
>
>
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