Thread: rs.getMetaData.getTableName always return empty string

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:42 AM, nowind_lee <nowind_lee@qq.com> wrote:
> I've read some discussions before I write this post. I know that
> "rs.getMetaData.getTableName" always return empty string just because the
> developers think it should be alias name in the query, not the underlying
> table name, which is hard to implement, so it's best to leave it blank.
>
> And also there is a "PGResultSetMetaData.getBaseTableName()" can be used to
> get the table name.
>
> I understand this, but it make something very hard. Please see my question:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9247064/play2s-anorm-cant-work-on-postgresql
>
> From the implementation of play's anorm framework, we know that most of
> other jdbc drivers all return the underlying table name in
> "rs.getMetaData.getTableName". It make the parse of result set of "join"
> query easily.
>
> Since all other drivers have the same action, will postgresql driver do it
> too? I think return the underlying table name is much more useful than an
> empty string.

I think you might want to post this question to the pgsql-jdbc mailing
list, rather than here.

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