Because this isn't supported in older versions of Amazon's RDS API (not
supported pre-2013-05-15).  I haven't looked at this code in a few weeks,
but I'll double check.  If RDS is always going to be using v2013-05-15 of
the API, then this fix is ok.  If someone downgrades the AWS RDS API
Version, then this rename functionality will not work (hence the check).

-allan



On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Daniel Lindsley
<notifications@github.com>wrote:

> In boto/rds/__init__.py:
>
> >          if not region:
> >              region = RDSRegionInfo(self, self.DefaultRegionName,
> >                                     self.DefaultRegionEndpoint)
> >          self.region = region
> > +
>
> Why are you passing a custom api_version? We typically try to keep boto
> as up-to-date as possible, bumping the API version as we go.
>
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