Re: Postgres JDBC3 driver compliance

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Barry Lind wrote:
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> Ian Howlett wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I wonder if someone can tell me how compliant the new (14 Jan 2003)
>> Postgres JDBC 3 driver is with the JDBC 3 standard.
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> In general the jdbc spec is self documenting via the DatabaseMetaData
> class.  The spec requires methods in this class that detail which
> functionality a database supports.  You should also realize that being
> compliant with the spec doesn't imply that all functionality is
> supported.  A fully compliant driver could implement vary little
> functionality.
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>> In particular, does it support
>> * Reusue of prepared statements by connection pools
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> What part of the jdbc spec are you talking about here?  I am not aware
> of any jdbc features on reusing prepared statements.
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>> * Retrieval of auto-generated keys
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> No.  The currently is know way to do this in postgres.  Until the
> database itself adds this functionality the driver cannot implement it.
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>> * Ability to have multiple open ResultSet objects
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> This has always been supported.
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>> I can't seem to find any documentation on the state of the JDBC driver
>> code. If anyone has any useful links etc then please let me know.
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> Contributions to improve the documentation are always welcome.
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>> Kind regards,
>> Ian
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> thanks,
> --Barry
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