On 12/15/2010 4:17 PM, Dag H. Wanvik wrote:
Hi Kathey,
thanks for helping me through this.
Thank you for running the tests!
Right, well it seems the tests are not that clever generally. As I mention,
using the 10.6 version of derbyTesting.jar saw more errors than
the 10.7 one (in spite of the default db not having been hard upgraded),
since the 10.7 version of derbyTesting is prepared to see
BOOLEAN in metadata.
I have not had a chance to look at the tests but I think the tests are
clever but Derby DatabaseMetaData is not clever enough to know it should
not return BOOLEAN in soft upgrade mode, so the tests are trying to use
it because they think it is available when it is not. The
derbyTesting.jar from 10.6 should run clean on a soft upgraded database
using 10.7 product jars, just like any 10.6 application. Of course the
new functionality in the 10.7 derbyTesting.jar should not work and so
sensible that it has failures.
I did verify the DatabaseMetaData getTypeInfo() bug and filed:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4946
Kathey
