You're welcome!
Perhaps the DatabaseMetaData should have methods for both the driver
version and the actual db version on disk?
Evan
On Jun 2, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Kathey Marsden wrote:
> Evan Leonard wrote:
>>
>> I agree that the requirement to have "upgrade=true" be on the first
>> connection to a db be added to the documentation. Perhaps also
>> include this trick about shutting down the db first to be able to
>> upgrade the db in a single jvm instance that's already been
>> connected to the db.
>>
> I filed three Jira Issues as the result of this thread.
> DERBY-4253 - documentation should indicate that a database cannot be
> upgraded if already booted in soft upgrade mode
> DERBY-4254 - If upgrade is not performed when connecting with the
> upgrade=true attribute specified, Derby should produce a warning
> DERBY-4255 - DatabaseMetaData getDatabaseMajorVersion() and
> getDatabaseMinorVersion() return software version rather than
> database version
>
> I was going to suggest you use the DatabaseMetaData methods instead
> of the undocumented property, but found they didn't work. #:(
>
> Thank you Evan for the useful input.
>
> Kathey
>
