Re: [GeoNetwork-devel] Downgrading Postgres driver ?

[jose g. <jos...@gm...>]

Hi Heikki

JDBC3 driver for postgres is used now in GeoNetwork. I'm working also with
JDK 1.6 and for me seem ok using JDBC3 driver, but would be better if
someone more can test this.

Regards,
Jose Garcia

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM, heikki <tro...@gm...> wrote:

> hi,
>
> so let's make decisions here.
>
> Seeing the discussion at
> http://logs.qgis.org/geonetwork/%23geonetwork.2010-10-12.log, the
> situation with Postgres drivers seems to be that we use either the one
> compatible with JDK1.5, which is not compatible with JDK1.6, or the other
> way around.
>
> , the Postgres JDBC page says "If you are using the 1.6 JVM, then you
> should use the JDBC4 version". It does not say that it is really not
> possible to use the JDBC3 driver with JDK1.6. Does anyone know about this
> for sure ?
>
> Assuming things are really not backward- and forward-compatible, the
> questions we need to answer are :
>
> - what do we put in the default downloadable installer ? or,
>
> - do we provide 2 default downloadable installers ?
>
> - what does the buildscript do by default
>
>
> My vote: I believe most production sites using GeoNetwork are running on
> JDK1.5, as they are often governmental institutes etc. that are often not at
> the bleeding edge of new technologies.
>
> So, default support for JDK1.5 in the downloadable installer and in the
> buildscript. No 2 versions of downloadable installers, that could be the
> beginning of a drama.
>
>
> What do you all think, and can we decide on this ? It is bothersome to
> developers too to have to adjust things everytime after a clean checkout and
> build.
>
> Kind regards
> Heikki Doeleman
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:49 PM, jose garcia <jos...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hi Heikki
>>
>> I think I commented this is a previous IRC meeting, but someone commented
>> that also Java 1.5 is no longer supported by Oracle and the release of 2.6.0
>> was quite near so no much priority on this in that moment.
>>
>> The new driver for Postgres supports JDBC4 (also same for MySql driver
>> provided), but not sure if is really required this support in any
>> functionality. If someone can confirm this should be good, otherwise I think
>> we can downgrade to JDBC3 drivers supporting both Java 1.5 and 1.6.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jose Garcia
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:01 PM, heikki <tro...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>> hello list,
>>>
>>>
>>> In GeoNetwork 2.6.0, the Postgres JDBC driver was upgraded. This new
>>> driver version is compiled with JDK1.6, making it impossible to run
>>> GeoNetwork 2.6.0 on JDK1.5 if you use Postgres.
>>>
>>> Was this upgrade absolutely necessary, or was there some compelling
>>> reason for it ?
>>>
>>>
>>> If not I propose that we downgrade back to our earlier version, so as not
>>> to break compatibility for JDK1.5 environments.
>>>
>>> If there is a very good reason for this upgrade, then I'd say we should
>>> officially stop supporting JDK1.5 environments in all configurations -- it
>>> is confusing to need to state that we support it when using some DBMSs, and
>>> not when using other ones.
>>>
>>>
>>> What do you think ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Heikki Doeleman
>>>
>>>
>>>
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