Re: Question about ResultSetMetaData - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Kris Jurka
Subject Re: Question about ResultSetMetaData
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Msg-id Pine.BSO.4.63.0604211511160.1040@leary2.csoft.net
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In response to Question about ResultSetMetaData  ("Robert Landsmeer" <r.landsmeer@wis.nl>)
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Robert Landsmeer wrote:

> In the application i am developing we query the ResultSetMetaData for
> all columns in a particular table to discover the type and null-ability
> of the column.

If this is all from one table, perhaps you would be better off using a
DatabaseMetaData.getColumns instead?  That should only issue one query.

> On the todolist I found the following under the idea's section:
>
> ResultSetMetaData calls that run queries are cached on a per column
> basis, but it seems likely that they're going to be called for all
> columns, so try to issue one query per ResultSet, not per column.
>
> Does anyone know if this will make it into a release someday? As it
> would really help us performance wise.
>

At this point it is just an idea.  No one that I know of is working on it.

Kris Jurka

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