Re: Binary Cursors (& Geometric Type Support)

From: Barry Lind <barry(at)xythos(dot)com>
To: Jeff Hoffmann <jeff(at)propertykey(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Binary Cursors (& Geometric Type Support)
Date: 2002-09-24 18:53:01
Message-ID: 3D90B48D.2080204@xythos.com
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Jeff,

I use both binary and regular cursors in my code without any apparent
problems. I am not sure what you mean by 'Is this the best way to use
cursors with this driver?'

thanks,
--Barry

Jeff Hoffmann wrote:
> Barry Lind wrote:
>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> Since the curror is returning binary data, the only method that works
>> re retrieve the data is getBytes(). Get Object will not work with
>> binary cursors.
>
>
> Gotcha. I was hoping getObject would automagically do the type
> conversion. If only the bytes would be in the right order do use the
> DataInput classes, my life would have been a little easier, but it
> apparently works, so I guess I'll just take this as a learning
> experience. I guess my other question should have been "Is this the
> best way to use cursors with this driver?" I was pretty much directly
> translating from a C program, but is there a better way to do it, both
> for binary and regular cursors?
>
> ----
> Jeff Hoffmann
> PropertyKey.com
>
>

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