Jean-Pierre Pelletier wrote:
> The advantage of overloaded versions of setObject over new method names
> was to
> provide backward compatibility for setObject(i,x)
> i.e. no need to recode setObject(i,x) to setObject(i,x,Types.someType)
> because setObject(i,x) is now broken with null objects.
How is this backwards-compatible? Without recompilation, adding extra
methods doesn't do anything. With recompilation, you need to add a cast
to PGStatement to see the new methods. If you're changing the code
anyway, why not just change to the typed setObject() variant?
-O