Rick Hillegas wrote: > Kathey Marsden wrote: > >> Rick Hillegas wrote: >> >>> Before filing a bug on this, I'd like the community's advice: >>> >>> 1) Is this a bug? Should Statement.getGeneratedKeys() return a >>> ResultSet whose column has the same type as the underyling >>> autogenerated column? >>> >>> 2) If this is a bug, is it permitted to change this behavior in a >>> minor release? >>> >> I can't say if it is a bug or not, but with regard to 2, I wonder: >> What usage cases would benefit from changing it? > > > This would help customers who want to get the type of a table's > generated key from getGeneratedKeys() itself and not have to extract > this information from a more complicated series of metadata calls.
I'm lost here, what's complicated about DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()? Dan.
