Hello,
I just downloaded the new 7.3 release of PostgreSQL and also tried the
new JDBC-drivers shipped with the release. And I have problems with the
new driver.
The Java-API says for the function DatabaseMetaData.getColumns(...):
<snip>
Retrieves a description of table columns available in the specified
catalog.
Only column descriptions matching the catalog, schema, table and column
name criteria are returned. They are ordered by |TABLE_SCHEM|,
|TABLE_NAME|, and |ORDINAL_POSITION|.
</snip>
Looking in org/postgresql/jdbc1/AbstractJdbc1DatabaseMetaData.java I
find in line 2312 in getColumns(...)
<snip>
sql += " ORDER BY nspname,relname,attname ";
</snip>
So the order is wrong, the columns or sorted by their name and not by
their position in the table-defintion. This broke my code.
Is this a bug or an intended feature?
Greetings
Thorsten
