Dave,
I sent the following response to the original poster and to the list. I
haven't heard anything back yet.
thanks,
--Barry
>Ryouichi,
>
>I did not follow your explaination of the problem and therefore I don't
>see how your suggested patch fixes the problem.
>
>You claim that the jdbc driver does not support the timestamptz type.
>However when I try using this type, I don't have any problems. I just
>executed the sql statements you had included in your email:
>
>select 'now'::timestamp;
>select 'now'::timestamptz;
>select 'now'::timestamp with time zone;
>
>These all seem to work correctly for me.
>
>Then however I did try your last query:
>
>select 'now'::timestamp without time zone;
>
>and this does fail for me with the string index out of bounds
>exception. However the patch you sent does not seem to fix this error.
>And I really don't know what to do with this datatype, since jdbc does
>not have a corresponding datatype that doesn't contain timezone
>information.
>
>So to summarize, after looking at the sql statements you mention in
>your email, they all seem to work correctly for me without your patch
>being applied, except for the last one, which still fails even with
>your patch applied. So I am unsure what your patch is supposed to fix,
>since I do not see any evidence that it fixes anything that is broken.
>
>thanks,
>--Barry
>
Dave Cramer wrote:
> Barry,
>
> Did you take care of this? I recall seeing some messages regarding
> timestamps a few days ago
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Ryouichi
> Matsuda
> Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 3:20 AM
> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Cc: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
> Subject: [HACKERS] Failure in timestamptz of JDBC of 7.2b4
>
>
> I found a failure in a JDBC driver of 7.2b4.
> (1) It does not support timestamptz type
> (2) Exception occurs by timestamp without time zone type
> I attach a patch correcting the first failure.
> You can confirm it in example.psql as follows:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ java -cp postgresql-examples.jar:postgresql.jar example.psql
> jdbc:postgresql:r-matuda r-matuda pass PostgreSQL psql example v6.3 rev
> 1
>
> Connecting to Database URL = jdbc:postgresql:r-matuda
> Connected to PostgreSQL 7.2b4
>
> [1] select 'now'::timestamp;
> timestamptz
> No class found for timestamptz.
> [1] [1] select 'now'::timestamp with time zone;
> timestamptz
> No class found for timestamptz.
> [1] [1] select 'now'::timestamp without time zone;
> timestamp
> Exception caught.
> java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 26
> java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 26
> at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:516)
> at
> org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.toTimestamp(ResultSet.java:1653)
> at
> org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.getTimestamp(ResultSet.java:398)
> at org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.getObject(ResultSet.java:768)
> at example.psql.displayResult(psql.java:137)
> at example.psql.processLine(psql.java:96)
> at example.psql.<init>(psql.java:62)
> at example.psql.main(psql.java:227)
>
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