Re: JDBC String to Bool spec - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

On Jan 15, 2017, at 4:26 PM, Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> wrote:

http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/jcp/jdbc-4_1-mrel-spec/jdbc4.1-fr-spec.pdf?AuthParam=1484522754_78e98a772cf0c1f6c7f18ab76e324ff5 

Has a table on page 211 if that is what you are looking for

Dave Cramer

davec@postgresintl.com

www.postgresintl.com

On 15 January 2017 at 18:20, Kevin Wooten <kdubb@me.com> wrote:

Does anybody know where in the specification it details the required/acceptable conversions from string values to boolean?  I cannot seem to find it in the PDF for 4.2.

I am curious about some of the conversions that are done.  For example, calling “ResultSet.getBoolean” on a text/varchar column with the value “1.0”.  This conversion succeeds because the driver (both pgjdbc & ng) fallback to decoding the column as a double then converting that by testing it “== 1”; which seems valid but questionable since “!= 0” would also be valid, but vastly different.

This is not allowed by Postgres (e.g. “SELECT “1.0”::bool;” results in an error) and I cannot find anything in JDBC as of yet.

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