[Gambas-user] Help with downgrading to lower version of gambas - postgres problems persist - Solved?

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 05/07/2018 à 06:44, Richard Terry a écrit :
> Hi Benoit,
> 
> I think I've found the problem and its in our code.
> 
> We don't use the Gambas3 data connector, we wrote our own code to set up 
> the connection back in 2008 when we started writing EasyGP, at least Ian 
> did this part
> 
> I took a look at it today and now the error message makes sense.
> 
> Part of the code in our subroutine was:
> 
> $hconn = New Connection
> ...... bla bla lots of code inbetween.....doing lots of things
> backend_pid = PQbackendPID(Connection.Handle)  [which now generates the 
> message "Connection.Handle is not static"]
> 
> I'm guessing this was a typo and should have read backend_pid = 
> PQbackendPID($hconn.Handle)
> 
> Its running now with this change and logs on ok, so hopefully this is 
> all it was. Strange it worked for all those years, maybe something was 
> 'tightened up' after version 3.9
> 
> Regards
> 
> Richard
> 
> 

Now you tell, I think there was a bug fix about that. Should search into 
the changelog to be sure.

It worked because it called DB.Handle instead, which returns the handle 
of the "current" connection, usually the first one opened.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini