Re: DatabaseMetaData oddities

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Oliver Jowett wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:00:11PM -0500, Kris Jurka wrote:
>
> > The getTypeInfo patch uses functionality not in Java 1.1 so it cannot be
> > used in the jdbc1 package.
>
> I'll look at revising this shortly. What specifically isn't available in 1.1
> that the patch used? (the JDK javadoc is fairly useless at giving an
> overview of API changes by version).
>

Arrays.sort() and Comparators

> > The getMaxTableNameLength patch is not a good idea.  You're changing
> > something general to fix a very specific problem.  I would recomend using
> > explicit constraint names or petitioning backend developers to create
> > non-conflicating auto generated names.
>
> Certainly the best fix is to fix the backend.. Where's the best place to
> forward this to? I doubt I'll have time to work on this myself.
>

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Kris Jurka