Re: Timestamp Conversion Woes Redux

For that matter we could use a PGUnknown type as well.

Dave.
On 19-Jul-05, at 10:52 AM, Csaba Nagy wrote:

> [snip]
>
>> wasn't the whole thread.  I agree with you that if we make setString
>> default to UNKNOWN, there had better be a way to say "by golly this
>> really is TEXT" for the corner cases.  It'd be a good idea if it
>> wasn't
>> limited to TEXT, either, but could allow specification of any random
>> datatype.
>>
>
> This makes me think, isn't it possible to introduce a special type to
> say something like: setObject(..., Types.UNKNOWN), and map that to
> setting a string with type unknown ? In that case people could
> still use
> prepared statements with parameters of unknown type, it just have
> to be
> explicit. For me that would have been a much simpler "fixing the app".
>
> Cheers,
> Csaba.
>
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