Re: Support for DatabaseMetadata: getCatalogName, getTableName, getColumnLabel

I stand corrected. I'll try to find some time this week to work on
some of the outstanding issues.

Tom, as of which version has this been implemented ?

Dave
On 29-Dec-06, at 10:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> writes:
>> The backend does not provide us with this information, so it is not
>> trivial to implement( or even possible in some cases) .
>
> Huh?  We added table oid and column number to the RowDescription
> message
> specifically to support those JDBC methods.  You would have to
> incur an
> additional round trip to the server to get names from these numbers,
> but it's certainly implementable ... and I thought it'd been
> implemented
> long ago, so I'm a bit surprised by Ken's report.
>
> As for getCatalogName, I think just returning the database name (which
> you should still have from the connection request) would meet the
> spec.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>