Re: Re: JDBC int8 hack - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Re: JDBC int8 hack
Date
Msg-id 4617.987180719@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: JDBC int8 hack  (Kyle VanderBeek <kylev@yaga.com>)
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Kyle VanderBeek <kylev@yaga.com> writes:
> Please consider applying my patch to the 7.0 codebase as a stop-gap
> measure until such time as the optimizer can be improved to notice
> indecies on INT8 columns and cast INT arguments up.

I think it's an extremely bad idea to hack up JDBC to get around a
backend shortcoming.  The hack will persist and cause problems long
after the real issue has been fixed.

            regards, tom lane

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