Thread: Bug extracting bit value

Hello!

When I extract a bit value by JDBC I get an Boolean Object - even for bit(3)!

CREATE TABLE testbits
           (
            cbitone bit(1),
            cbitthree bit(3),
            cvarbit varbit,
            cboolean bool
           )
INSERT INTO testbits
           ("cbitone", "cbitthree", "cvarbit", "cboolean") values
           (
            B'1',
            B'101',
            B'0101',
            true
           )
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In Java:

select * from testbits

Object oValue = m_resultSet.getObject(i);

returns:
 | cbitone             | cbitthree           | cvarbit                        | cboolean            |
-|---------------------|---------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------|-
 | true                | false               | 0101                           | true                |
 | 'java.lang.Boolean' | 'java.lang.Boolean' | 'org.postgresql.util.PGobject' | 'java.lang.Boolean' |



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When I use getString() instead of getObject() I get this result:

Object oValue = m_resultSet.getObject(i);


 | cbitone            | cbitthree          | cvarbit            | cboolean           |
-|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-
 | '1'                | '101'              | '0101'             | 't'                |
 | 'java.lang.String' | 'java.lang.String' | 'java.lang.String' | 'java.lang.String' |


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Same statement in pgAdmin III returns:
1;101;"0101";t

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Tested with:
PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on Windows 2000
JDBC driver: postgresql-8.2dev-503.jdbc3.jar AND postgresql-8.1-407.jdbc3.jar


    Holger

Holger Schulz wrote:

> When I extract a bit value by JDBC I get an Boolean Object - even for bit(3)!

That's a bit strange, if varbit(n) returns a custom PGobject I'd expect
bit(n) to do the same..

Again this is a type where there's no good JDBC mapping for it though ..
maybe boolean[] would be right, but then you can also have real arrays
of bools..

The confusing thing is that JDBC's Types.BIT really means "boolean" not
"bit(n)" :(

-O

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Oliver Jowett wrote:

> Holger Schulz wrote:
>
>> When I extract a bit value by JDBC I get an Boolean Object - even for
>> bit(3)!
>
> That's a bit strange, if varbit(n) returns a custom PGobject I'd expect
> bit(n) to do the same..

Well, varbit only returns a bare PGobject not a custom implementation, so
it's rather useless.  Any type the driver knows nothing about gets this,
so we could remove the bit behavior, but I'm not sure it's a clear winner.

>
> Again this is a type where there's no good JDBC mapping for it though ..
> maybe boolean[] would be right, but then you can also have real arrays of
> bools..

Right, this would be good for getObject, but setObject wouldn't know what
to do with it.

Kris Jurka