Recently, as part of the JDBC 2.0 public review, we've been
asked to add two new methods to the DatabaseMetaData interface. This
is not a critical feature, but it would be nice to add it, and
respond to this developers request.

The proposed new methods are:

interface DataBaseMetaData {

int getDatabaseProductMajorVersion() throws SQLException;
int getDatabaseProductMinorVersion() throws SQLException;

}

The two methods simply return the version numbers of the underlying
database. The new methods are similar to two existing methods

getDriverMinorVersion()
getDriverMajorVersion()

so they fit nicely into the API. I believe these methods were
simply forgotten for JDBC 1.0 and that that is why they are not
there. This change will not raise any objections with the JDBC
vendor community.