Re: Accessing BIT(n) type from Java

This is really unpleasant situation since I intended to use binary
AND/OR operators with BIT(n) in SELECTs which as I know is not possible
with BYTEA type. So is there ANY way how use BIT(n) from Java even if it
will cause PostgereSQL specific and JDBC not compliant code (for example
using some PostgreSQL extensions or treating it as custom datatype or
whatever is possible) or should I definitely forget using BIT(n) from Java?

pa

On 26.12.2002 19:52, Barry Lind wrote:
> Petr,
>
> There currently isn't support for the bit(n) datatype.  This is
> primarily due to the fact the the jdbc spec (at least from my reading)
> doesn't have support for this type.  The jdbc spec does have t BIT type
> but that is really the same as the postgres boolean datatype.
>
> I would suggest that you use the bytea type instead.
>
> --Barry
>
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> Petr Andrs wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I need to use BIT(n) type for storing large bitmaps into database and
>> access them from Java. But when I am retrieving data into Java via
>> JDBC only null (ie no data) is returned and I receive error mesage
>> saying something like that I have no conversion or mapping for BIT
>> type although Java's java.util.BitSet perfectly matches PostgreSQL's
>> BIT(n) type. Is it possible to get data with BIT(n) type into Java.
>> And if yes, how?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> pa
>>
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