Re: [PATCH] NPE in meta data getPrimaryKeys()

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 15:08, Anders Hermansen wrote:
> * Daniel Serodio (daniel(at)checkforte(dot)com(dot)br) wrote:
> > The Javadoc for DatabaseMetaData.getPrimaryKeys(...) clearly states that
> > catalog may be null, but doesn't mention anything about schema or table
> > being null. I understand this as meaning they (schema and table) can't
> > be null.
>
> Maybe you have an old javadoc? In my (1.4.1) it specifies that schema
> can be null as well. But it does not mention that table can be null. This is
> probably a bug in ojb then.

Old Javadoc indeed. I'm using 1.3.1. I can't recall right now, is the
JDBC in Java 1.3.1 is JDBC2? Maybe the app (reversedb) should try to
find out if it's talking to JDBC2 or JDBC3, then use table=null or not
accordingly. Is this viable?

> <quote>
> Parameters:
> catalog - a catalog name; must match the catalog name as it is stored in the database; "" retrieves those without a catalog; null means that the catalog name should not be used to narrow the search
> schema - a schema name; must match the schema name as it is stored in the database; "" retrieves those without a schema; null means that the schema name should not be used to narrow the search
> table - a table name; must match the table name as it is stored in the database
> </quote>
>
>
> Anders
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