On 12/8/06, David Van Couvering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My understanding is that improvements are planned for the next release, 10.3.
Altering a column to change its null / not null constraint [1], as well as the default value for a column [2], made it into the recent 10.2.1.6 release. Alter table drop column has been checked into the trunk [3], although there remains an issue when using alter table drop column with SQL authorization [4] that remains unresolved. It was decided that there was an acceptable solution for changing the data type for a column with the combined above functionality, see the discussion in DERBY-1515 [5]. [1] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-119 [2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1491 [3] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1489 [4] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1909 [5] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1515
I'm not sure where we stand on the date for that release - anyone have any info on the expected release date?
At the moment, I don't think there are any concrete plans for a new feature release. Anyone interested in contributing to new features or release planning should subscribe to the Derby development mailing list and join the discussions there. andrew
