Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> Why not merge from current changes/bugfixes to the JDBC?
> I mean 7.4 is old ok, but *officially supported* also!
Pre 8.0 the JDBC driver was included with the server source.
Post 8.0 it was shipped separatedly, because amongst other things the
development cycle of the JDBC driver didn't match the server development
cycle well.
For 7.4 the decision about what to declare as "supported" is somewhat
out of our hands because the JDBC driver is only a small part of the
large system.
We really only support driver versions 8.0 and later - 7.4 gets security
and trivial bugfixes and that's about it. There were large architectural
changes in the 8.0 driver and so it's not a simple task to backport most
bugfixes to the 7.4 code. And given that newer drivers still talk to
older servers (back to 7.2) it's not really a pressing concern since
upgrading the driver works for most apps.
-O
