Re: DatabaseMetaData and Transactions - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

 Hi Dave.

Thanks - should have thought of looking in those logs!  So much for our
exception handling/reporting at that point.

Anyway - now resolved, with my thanks.

I do however have an additional query!

In 7.3 (using the 7.3 JDBC driver) we were able to do the following:

=== SNIP ===

if (value == null)
{
    stmt.setString( index, null );
}

=== END ===

Some context here.  We have a method that constructs a PreparedStatement
taking the sql (eg):

UPDATE table SET cola = ?, colb = ?, colc = ?

Or

INSERT INTO table (cola, colb, colc) VALUES (?, ?, ?)

And an Object[] of values (in the correct order) for the sql being used in
the PreparedStatement.

Now - the reason we do a setString(index, null) and not a setNull(index,
Types.SOME_TYPE) is because this method is generic and does not always KNOW
the datatypes for the columns.

Now, using PostgreSQL 8 (and the new JDBC driver for 8) we ARE still able to
do that when using a 7..3 db server, but get the following error when using
a version 8 PGSQL server:

ERROR: column "created_by" is of type integer but expression is of type
character varying

Where created_by is being passed a NULL value (using the setString(index,
null) method).

Does anyone have any comments/suggestions/etc?  Is there any way to get
around this?  Or will we need to update our side to always pass in the
column meta data etc for use?

Thanks in advance,

Carl



-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Cramer [mailto:pg@fastcrypt.com]
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 4:23 PM
To: Carl Olivier
Cc: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [JDBC] DatabaseMetaData and Transactions

Carl,

One of the queries is failing, have a look at the logs in postgres and
report back to us what is failing.

Dave
On 6-Jun-05, at 9:38 AM, Carl Olivier wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> Having a problem with regards DatabaseMetaData retrievals within a
> Transaction.  I have a large transaction running - within which
> database alterations need to occur.  However, during this process I
> need to retrieve
> Table metadata (via the DatabaseMetaData.getTables() method).
> However, this
> does not seem possible in POSTGRES?  I receive the following error:
>
> ERROR: current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of
> transaction block.
>
> I trace that directly to a call to the getTables method of the
> DatabaseMetaData implementation.
>
> Can anyone provide me with any advice here?  Is this correct
> behaviour, and is there any way (other than caching table metadata
> prior to, and maintaining said cache during the transaction) to allow
> for meta data retrieval during a transaction?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
>
> Carl
>
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