On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:01:12AM -0800, Adrian Frick wrote:
> Configuration:
> - PostgreSQL 7.4
> - JDBC 7.4 beta3 build 209
>
> Test case:
> 1. Created a table column of type BOOLEAN
> 2. Retrieved column metadata using
> - Class: DatabaseMetaData
> - Method: getColumns
> 3. Got the following values
> - DATA_TYPE: -7 (java.sql.Types.BIT)
> - TYPE_NAME: bool
>
> Error description:
> DATA_TYPE should be 16 (java.sql.Types.BOOLEAN)
> instead of -7, wenn TYPE_NAME is 'bool'
Types.BOOLEAN is an alias for Types.BIT according to the JDBC spec. Seems
valid to return BIT for a boolean column to me, especially as BOOLEAN isn't
present in earlier JDBC versions.
-O
