Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches
I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.
> On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 01:34:46 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >there is still an unpatched reference to pg_description in
> >getColumns(), in both jdbc1 and jdbc2.
>
> This was introduced by Jeroen's patch (see
> http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1032468). Attached
> is a patch that returns getColumns() to using "select
> obj_description()" instead of direct access to pg_description,
> as per the request by Tom.
>
> I've incorporated Jeroen's fix to left outer join with
> pg_attrdef instead of inner join, so getColumns() also returns
> columns without a default value.
>
> I have, however, not included Jeroen's attempt to combine
> multiple queries into one huge multi-join query for better
> performance, because:
> 1) I don't know how to do that using obj_description() instead
> of direct access to pg_description
> 2) I don't think a performance improvement (if any) in this
> method is very important
>
> Because of the outer join, getColumns() will only work with a
> backend >= 7.1. Since the conditional coding for 7.1/7.2 and
> jdbc1/jdbc2 is already giving me headaches I didn't pursue a
> pre-7.1 solution.
>
> Regards,
> Ren? Pijlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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