Re: [INTERFACES] Postgresql and JDBC

Quoting Wayne Johnson <wdtj@yahoo.com>:

> I've got some questions on using POSTGRESQL with JDBC.  Some folks on
> the
> Novice mailing list suggested I use the interfaces mailing list, but
> the
> web site suggests that I should use another.  Which mailing list is
> appropriate.

pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org - its a new list created due to the ammount of
traffic.

I've got to update the jdbc pages this week.

> I would like to do a read & update of a single record.  I've seen
> several
> examples of using JDBC to update an entire table, but I'm only looking
> to
> modify a single record.

Standard SQL, ie UPDATE table SET col=value WHERE keycol=keyvalue;

Then use executeUpdate() from within Statement.

The basic example in the source included this.

>
> Is this a case where I should use getCursorName?  How do I then do an
> UPDATE to only modify that single record?  Is this multi user safe?

No, cursors are mainly used to manage large result sets.

> I've
> tried the JDBC 2.0 updateXXX functions, but they are apparently not
> implemented for Postgresql yet.

No. UpdateableResultSet is not yet available (partly done), and you can't
guarantee it working on all ResultSet's anyhow (see the JDBC2.0 specs).

>
> Are there any good (in depth) examples of JDBC out there?  The only
> ones
> I've seen are limited to a simple SELECT or UPDATE.

The source has some (src/interfaces/jdbc/example)

Peter

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