Re: setMaxFieldSize

Fernando,

No reason that I can think of.  That code predates my involvement.

thanks,
--Barry

Fernando Nasser wrote:
> Can you someone tell me why we do not implement this?  The comment does
> not explain why the "NOT!".
>
> All we have to do is to properly truncate the received values. If this
> is a good programming practice or not it is debatable, but it is in the
> JDBC standard anyway.  It may even be useful for some applications out
> there.
>
>
>     /*
>      * Sets the maxFieldSize - NOT! - We throw an SQLException just
>      * to inform them to stop doing this.
>      *
>      * @param max the new max column size limit; zero means unlimited
>      * @exception SQLException if a database access error occurs
>      */
>     public void setMaxFieldSize(int max) throws SQLException
>     {
>         throw new PSQLException("postgresql.stat.maxfieldsize");
>     }
>