Re: setUseServerPrepare & typecasts

Well, in postgres it certainly isn't necessary, however I would suspect
that one of the vendors that was involved in creating the spec required
it.

Dave
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 04:59, Felipe Schnack wrote:
>   I never understood why I have to specify a data type when setting a
> column to NULL in jdbc's PreparedStatement.setNull() method. Someone can
> explain to me?
>
> On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 23:57, Aaron Mulder wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Scott Lamb wrote:
> > > Ahh, but the JDBC 3.0 specification does. Section 13.2.2.3 says "if a
> > > Java null is passed to any of the setter methods that take a Java
> > > object, the parameter will be set to JDBC NULL". So it should work.
> >
> >     Oops, you're right.  I had it in my head that you _had_ to use
> > setNull, but I see that's not really required.
> >
> > Aaron
> >
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