Re: Request for qualified column names - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Request for qualified column names
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0301291900220.789-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Request for qualified column names  (Dave Cramer <dave@fastcrypt.com>)
Responses Re: Request for qualified column names  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Dave Cramer writes:

> The method in question is
> ResultSetMetaDate.getTableName(int column)
> and while were at it
> ResultSetMetaData.getSchemaName(int column)
> and FWIW, the return value if not applicable is ""

Not applicable sounds fine to me.  It's like taking a file descriptor and
asking what file it belongs to.  That information simply doesn't exist,
and if you design an application around it you lose.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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