Dave>Well all drivers have to do something similar. Not all result sets are updatable. What do other drivers do ?
Technically speaking, pgjdbc could cache the names of primary keys for a given table.
It would be useful at least in two places:
1) updateable resultset
2) return generated keys
However, as of now no such cache exists in pgjdbc.
The second issue is the backend does not send notifications on DDL changes. Thus the cache can easily get out of sync when java thinks there's a column named A, and in reality the column was dropped long ago.
Vladimir