Re: Accessing BIT(n) type from Java

Petr,

You should be able to use getString()/setString() with any datatype.

thanks,
--Barry



Petr Andrs wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> Petr Andrs wrote:
>>
>>> 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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