It no longer is contentious - they fixed it in Apache Derby.
Bernard
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:37:37 -0400, you wrote:
>More evidence that it's a contentious issue.
>
>Dave Cramer
>
>dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
>http://www.credativ.ca
>
>
>On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Bernard <bht237@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dave,
>>
>> I have filed issues with Hibernate and EclipseLink. No activity at
>> Hibernate. EclipseLink has a workaround for this but it does not work
>> with Postgresql. It is quite difficult to get them to do anything
>> because they are fine with their preferred databases e.g. Oracle,
>> Mysql.
>>
>>
>> I found this interesting:
>>
>> "Add support for setObject(<arg>, null)"
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1938
>>
>> Bernard
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:15:56 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>>> [1] (from PreparedStatement.setObject): "Note: Not all databases allow
>>>> for a non-typed Null to be sent to the backend. For maximum
>>>> portability, the setNull or the setObject(int parameterIndex, Object
>>>> x, int sqlType) method should be used instead of setObject(int
>>>> parameterIndex, Object x). "
>>>> ---
>>>
>>>
>>>This was essentially Oliver's argument. The spec specifically tells
>>>you what to do.
>>>
>>>Bernard, if you point this out to the projects in question what do they say ?
>>>
>>>Dave
>>