On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Robert Landsmeer wrote:
> In the application i am developing we query the ResultSetMetaData for
> all columns in a particular table to discover the type and null-ability
> of the column.
If this is all from one table, perhaps you would be better off using a
DatabaseMetaData.getColumns instead? That should only issue one query.
> On the todolist I found the following under the idea's section:
>
> ResultSetMetaData calls that run queries are cached on a per column
> basis, but it seems likely that they're going to be called for all
> columns, so try to issue one query per ResultSet, not per column.
>
> Does anyone know if this will make it into a release someday? As it
> would really help us performance wise.
>
At this point it is just an idea. No one that I know of is working on it.
Kris Jurka