[Qt-interest] Postgresql 9 support

[Harry Sfougaris]

- Compiling works under Windows only with the x86 version of PostgreSQL 
(and not the x64)
- The driver still doesn't work: What I have noticed so far is that 
QSqlQuery and QSqlQueryModel work, but QSqlTableModel doesn't.

Harry Sfougaris

On 2/11/2010 9:56 μμ, Diego Schulz wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Konrad Rosenbaum<konrad at silmor.de>  wrote:
>> On Tuesday 02 November 2010 14:38:49 Harry Sfougaris wrote:
>>> I'm not sure anyone here can answer this, but I was wondering since
>>> Postgresql 9 is not supported currently by Qt, how long does it usually
>>> take for a major release of a database server to be supported?
>>> Will it be in a 4.7.x release, or are there chances of it being updated
>>> before (and I just download the updated code and recompile the plugin)?
>>> Sorry if this seems off-topic; maybe if there is a more appropriate
>>> mailing list where I should be asking this, someone can please let me
>>> know...
>> Postgres is backwards compatible. Meaning older client libs can access newer
>> servers and vice versa. You might miss a few features that only work between
>> newest server and newest client (it is likely that you wouldn't want to use a
>> wrapper like QtSql if you needed any of those).
>>
>> If you insist on using the newest client lib - just recompile Qt.
>>
>>
>>         Konrad
>>
> Hi,
>
> I suspect that by just recompiling Qt isn't enough. A quick peek at
> the source [0][1] suggests that there's some missing code in order to
> play nice with PostgreSQL 9.x, at least to avoid the warning.
>
> I don't know if there's new functionality and/or schema changes in pg
> 9.x that needs to be reflected in the qpsql driver, though.
>
> regards,
>
> diego
>
> [0] http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/blobs/4.7/src/sql/drivers/psql/qsql_psql.h
> [1] http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/blobs/4.7/src/sql/drivers/psql/qsql_psql.cpp
>
>
> http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/blobs/4.7/src/sql/drivers/psql/qsql_psql.cpp
>
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