Well I think we can restore the orignal functionality of getBytes so that it returns a byte array for other objects As long as we preserve the functionality for bytea types, and LargeObjects
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jason Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: October 28, 2001 8:34 AM To: Dave Cramer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JDBC] DatabaseMetaData.getTables() On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:14:42AM -0500, Dave Cramer wrote: > It appears the getBytes was previously being used to return a byte > array of any arbitrary column. > > Fixes for blobs seem to have broken this. The question is as Jason > pointed out which do we fix. > > It doesn't seem unreasonable to be able to return a byte array for any > arbitray column. On the other hand is this the intended use? This is what the documentation says: public byte[] getBytes(int columnIndex) throws SQLException Retrieves the value of the designated column in the current row of this ResultSet object as a byte array in the Java programming language. The bytes represent the raw values returned by the driver. It seems to imply that it _should_ return a byte array for any arbitary column. But as usual, it's up to us to decide. I think it's reasonable, since we are working with byte arrays in the code anyway. -- Jason Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
