Re: pg_locks.transaction field type

Joseph Shraibman wrote:

>> The column's type is 'xid' which the driver doesn't currently handle,
>> so it gets put into the "wrap it in PGobject" bucket.
>
> Is xid a type of number?

It's an internal backend type; I'm not familiar with the details.

>> Perhaps your server should convert instances of PGobject to their
>> string representations before returning them across RMI.
>
> That's what I'll do.  Are there any other classes besides
> org.postgresql.util.PGobject that I have to worry about?

There are other classes for things like intervals and the geometric
types, but they should all be subclasses of PGobject.

-O