Re: JBoss w/int8 primary keys in postgres ...

On 09/09/2003 18:39 Barry Lind wrote:
> Rod,
>
> That was tried once and needed to be pulled out. That change ended up
> breaking some code since there are some circumstances where '5' is not
> the same as 5 in the parser. I don't remember the details but they
> should be in the maillist archives (or the cvs commit message for the
> revert on the change).
>
> thanks,
> --Barry
>
> PS. Because of having tried and failed to fix this in the driver
> before, I am gun shy on trying a fix again at the driver level. The
> server is the proper place for this to be fixed. And I think it is in
> 7.4, but haven't verified that myself.

Is there any way we could find out for definite? Until this index/type
cast issue is sorted out I don't see any way that PostgreSQL can even be
considered ready for enterprise use. EJB/CMP is an important enterprise
technology and int8 index columns are not unknown in big company databases.

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