Re: What needs to be done?

Anders,

What aspects of BLOB support do you consider broken?  Are these aspects
that are broken in the JDBC layer or are 'broken' at the server layer?

thanks,
--Barry

Anders Bengtsson wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Rene Pijlman wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I read in comp.lang.java.databases that help is needed with
>>development of the JDBC driver. Can someone please provide some
>>pointers to what needs to be done?
>>
>>What are the open issues? Is it JDBC 2.0 compliance? PostgreSQL
>>7.1 support?
>>
>>I've seen a lot of postings about BLOB problems, and
>>JDBC-standard BLOB support is on the overall todo list
>>(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/todo.html). Is that still open
>>for development? Is there anyone who has already looked at
>>JDBC-standard BLOB support? If so, what are the challenges and
>>complications?
>>
>
> The broken BLOB support is a complete showstopper for PostgreSQL in some
> environments, so that feels like a high priority.
>
> As for JDBC 2.0, has anyone tried some sort of test suite for compliance?
> I know that some differences from the SQL standards make it impossible for
> PostgreSQL to be truly JDBC 2.0 compliant at the time, but it would be
> nice to know if we are as close to compliance as we can be.
>
> /Anders
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