RE: [INTERFACES] JDBC6.5-1.2 bug wrt timestamp

The getTimestamp() method is broken - it gets confused for any time zone
outside of GMT/BST. I've been given a patch for it, which I'm looking at
and should have committed by the weekend.

Peter

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Peter Mount
Enterprise Support
Maidstone Borough Council
Any views stated are my own, and not those of Maidstone Borough Council.



-----Original Message-----
From: Rachel Greenham [mailto:rachel@enlarion.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 2:05 PM
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: [INTERFACES] JDBC6.5-1.2 bug wrt timestamp


I've just come across a bug in the latest JDBC driver for JDK1.2.

Given a field in the database which is of type timestamp, I've been
retrieving the value using ResultSet.getTimestamp("col") eg:

Date d = rs.getTimeStamp("col");

This has been fine under JDBC6.4

The error I get is: 

Could not execute query (Bad Timestamp Format at 1999-06-09
15:34:05Africa/Algiers in {2}) 

The value in the database as seen by getString() is:

1999-06-29 00:00:00+01

The system timezone is set to "Europe/London".

OK, the first thing is that the Africa/Algiers bit seem to be a JVM
problem - ie: TimeZone.getDefault() returns timezone id "Africa/Algiers"
on my system, which is configured for "Europe/London". I'll be chasing
that separately.

Unfortunately, I couldn't override because
ResultSet.getTimestamp(String, TimeZone) hasn't been implemented yet
(that's the error I get anyway) but I also suspect from the above error
that it wouldn't work anyway.

For the time being I'm just getting the value as a String and parsing it
by hand.

-- 
Rachel