Thanks for your time, Mike. Thanks for confirming my thought that these are more than likely just stale comments.
Mamta On 3/13/07, Mike Matrigali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is likely that they can be deleted, that they refer to stuff the predates the derby codeline. I can't think of any persistent datatype that we got rid of since 10.0. To be absolutely safe one should check the 10.0 codeline as I can imagine horrible issues with reusing an existing format id for some on existing on disk datatype (again I don't remember us getting rid of anything but checking the code is always best - and note that the class comment is just that - a comment. It could me that the class was moved without updating the comment. Mamta Satoor wrote: > Hello, > > I was going through iapi.services.io.StoredFormatIds to understand how > SQLChar is generated by the compiler. I need to understand this in order > to support generation of SQLChar with their own collator. > > In StoredFormatIds, I see several references to classes in the comments > that don't really exist in Derby. For instance, there is following piece > of code is StoredFormatIds > > /** > class org.apache.derby.catalog.types.CharTypeIdImpl > */ > static public final int CHAR_TYPE_ID_IMPL = > (MIN_ID_2 + 17); > > But there is no CharTypeIdImpl in the catalog.types package. Are these > comments leftover from the past which should have been fixed? > > Thanks, > Mamta
