Re: rsmd.getPrecision(i) + rsmd.isNullable(i)

when you create a table with a alphanumeric column you specify a length for
this column
every other database return this length when you perform the
"getPrecision()" method for this column.
what would you do if you'd like to make a java program which copies a table
from database XXX into YYY
and you don't know how long this alphanumeric column is???

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Lind" <blind(at)xythos(dot)com>
To: "Jens Haberer" <gock(at)gmx(dot)de>
Cc: <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [JDBC] rsmd.getPrecision(i) + rsmd.isNullable(i)

> Jens,
>
> From the javadoc for ResultSetMetadata:
>
> getPrecision: Get the designated column's number of decimal digits.
>
> The javadoc implies that getPrecision is only for numeric datatypes.
> What does 'number of decimal digits' mean for a text column?
>
> As for the isNullable() return value, the driver has no way to determine
> if the underlying column in the query is nullable or not, so it returns
> the proper value in this case which is: 2 (columnNullableUnknown).
>
> thanks,
> --Barry
>
>
> Jens Haberer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > i have follwing table:
> >
> > "s1" bpchar(12)
> > "s23" numeric(5,2)
> > "s12" varchar(12)
> > "s93" timestamptz
> >
> > when i export the stucture of this table with a java program i get
following
> > results:
> >
> > name type precision scale nullable (from the resultsetmetadata object)
> > s1 1 0 0 2
> > s23 2 5 2 2
> > s12 12 0 0 2
> > s93 93 0 0 2
> >
> > why is precision of "s1" 0?
> > why is precision of "s12" 0?
> > why ist nullable always 2? Other databases have 0 or 1!
> >
> > i tried lot of jdbc driver from http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/
> >
> > greetings
> >
> > jens haberer
> >
>
>
>