Re: Binary Cursors (& Geometric Type Support) - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Barry Lind
Subject Re: Binary Cursors (& Geometric Type Support)
Date
Msg-id 3D90B48D.2080204@xythos.com
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In response to Binary Cursors (& Geometric Type Support)  (Jeff Hoffmann <jeff@propertykey.com>)
List pgsql-jdbc
Jeff,

I use both binary and regular cursors in my code without any apparent
problems.  I am not sure what you mean by 'Is this the best way to use
cursors with this driver?'

thanks,
--Barry

Jeff Hoffmann wrote:
 > Barry Lind wrote:
 >
 >> Jeff,
 >>
 >> Since the curror is returning binary data, the only method that works
 >> re retrieve the data is getBytes().  Get Object will not work with
 >> binary cursors.
 >
 >
 > Gotcha.  I was hoping getObject would automagically do the type
 > conversion.  If only the bytes would be in the right order do use the
 > DataInput classes, my life would have been a little easier, but it
 > apparently works, so I guess I'll just take this as a learning
 > experience.  I guess my other question should have been "Is this the
 > best way to use cursors with this driver?"  I was pretty much directly
 > translating from a C program, but is there a better way to do it, both
 > for binary and regular cursors?
 >
 > ----
 > Jeff Hoffmann
 > PropertyKey.com
 >
 >



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