Kathey Marsden <[email protected]> writes: > 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
Right, I did not think of that as a bug initially, but reconsidering it I agree that is probably wrong behavior on Derby's part: metadata should reflect the present capabilities (in casu the soft upgraded state). Thanks, Dag
