Vaibhav Nivargi wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using PG-jdbc-8.2-506 to connect to a Postgres DB with a table
> containing a timestamp column. Some entries for this are null. When I
> try to retrieve the entries, I get a Bad Value PSQLException for rows
> which have the timestamp set to null. I was able to trace it to
> org/postgresql/jdbc2/Timestamputils.java: loadCalender() which
> explicitly checks whether the timestamp has either a date or time
> value, else throws an exception.
>
> OTOH, setting a timestamp to null through jdbc (Update stmt) works
> without error. This seems like inconsistent behavior.
>
> Am I missing something? Any special settings for handling null
> timestamp/date values?
Null values should in theory get handled and returned well before
TimestampUtils ever gets invoked (see
AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.getTimestamp()). Can you supply a testcase
demonstrating the problem?
-O
