Re: DatabaseMetaData.getTables()

Barry,

The spec is probably ambiguous about this. The way everyone uses the
getters/setters is to get, and set an object into the db. I doubt there
is anything in the spec stopping us from retrieving an arbitrary column
as a byte[].

I see this as being innocuous. The user would normally set/get any
object using the appropriate setter, and if we allow a user to retrive
any object as a byte[] then it's just 'extra' functionality.

Of course we could just make this an internal driver method as well

Thanks for taking care of it,

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Lind [mailto:barry@xythos.com]
Sent: October 29, 2001 1:51 PM
To: Dave@micro-automation.net
Cc: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: DatabaseMetaData.getTables()


Dave,

I will look into this.  I will check the jdbc spec to see what it says
should happen.  Since it was my getBytes() changes that broke this, I
will take responsibility for fixing.

thanks,
--Barry


Dave Cramer wrote:

> It appears the getBytes was previously being used to return a byte
> array of any arbitrary column.
>
> Fixes for blobs seem to have broken this. The question is as Jason
> pointed out which do we fix.
>
> It doesn't seem unreasonable to be able to return a byte array for any

> arbitray column. On the other hand is this the intended use?
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-jdbc-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-jdbc-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jason Davies
> Sent: October 27, 2001 8:26 PM
> To: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
> Subject: [JDBC] DatabaseMetaData.getTables()
>
>
> Hi,
>
> There seems to be a problem with DatabaseMetaData.getTables() when I
> do the following:
>
> ResultSet R=conn.getMetaData().getTables(null, null, "%", null);
>
> It throws a NullPointerException:
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>     at
> org.postgresql.jdbc2.DatabaseMetaData.getTables(DatabaseMetaData.java:
> 17
> 32)
>     at Test.main(Test.java:66)
>
> Looking at the source, ResultSet.getBytes() is called and it returns
> null, causing this exception to be thrown. However I can use
> ResultSet.getString() without a problem. I'm using 7.1.3 at the
> moment. Does ResultSet.getBytes() need to be fixed or should
> getTables() be modified?
>
> I'd be grateful for any insights. Or you can just tell me to use the
> latest cvs version of PostgreSQL :) What is the consensus on
> supporting older versions, will you phase out old code when 7.2 comes
> out?
>
>