Re: getTables is this right?

At 23:39 09/03/01 -0800, Eric Frazier wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am having problems getting info on tables with getTables. I get null
>returned all of the time.

Where is it returning null? It should always return a result set.

>I was using this code
>
>snip:
>
>//String [] onlytables = new String[3];
>             //onlytables[0] = "TABLE";
>             //onlytables[1] = "INDEX";
>             ResultSet tableRS =
>m_inputCon.getMetaData().getTables(null,null,"%",null);
>
>/* I had used the String [] onlytables in place of null, but I got
>
>         java.sql.SQLException: ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near ")"

Yes as you had a NULL in onlytables[2]. Change your array to String[2] and
it should work.

>Now when  I read the JDBC API It says that the TABLE_NAME is column 3 and
>TABLE_TYPE should be column 4 in the getTables ResultSet.
>It looks to me like that is messed up with.
>
>  f[2] = new Field(connection, "TABLE_NAME", iVarcharOid, 32);
>  f[3] = new Field(connection, "TABLE_TYPE", iVarcharOid, 32);

No, the array f is 0 based, ie numbered from 0..4. JDBC is 1 based, so
column 1 maps to element 0 in the array. Don't ask why they made JDBC work
from 1 and not 0, it catches everyone out.

>I may be way off here, in my guessing, but I can't get getTables table type
>to return a type.
>
>I am using the 7.0 driver with the jar named 7.0-1.2.jar and Postgress 7.0.3
>on the server end.

That should work, and it seems to match what I've got running here.


>I hope I didn't get my versions messed up, but that is the other thing I am
>not certain about, what is the latest version of the driver and is it
>nessicarly in  the current "latest" postgress download?

No, I'm trying to get things sorted, but my day job has to take priority at
the moment, hence I'm a bit behind with things.

Peter