(fwd) What should Statement.executeBatch() do with an empty batch? - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

FYI ... I posted this question on the Sun JDBC-interest list.
This affects the PostgreSQL driver as well. Any thoughts?

>Should Statement.executeBatch() reset the list of commands to empty?
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>The JDBC 2.0 API specification (1) doesn't mention this, but the Java tutorial does (2).
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>1) http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/sql/Statement.html#executeBatch()
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>2) http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc/jdbc2dot0/batchupdates.html

Regards,
René Pijlman