Re: JDBC driver reports column size of -1 !?

Can you try building the latest code from CVS and trying it?

The code in current CVS has the fix to the objsubid bug you are
referring to, and I beleive the -1 column size problem is a known bug
fixed in 7.3.

thanks,
--Barry

M. A. Sridhar wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a code fragment that looks something like this:
>
> DatabaseMetaData mtd = connection.getMetaData();
> ResultSet columns = mtd.getColumns (null, "%", tableName, "%");
> for (int i = 0; columns.next(); i++) {
> String columnName = columns.getString ("COLUMN_NAME");
> int dataSize = columns.getInt ("COLUMN_SIZE");
> // .... other stuff here....
> }
>
> The dataSize parameter gets the value -1 for numeric columns, although it is
> correctly reported for characters and varchars. I'm beginning to believe this
> is a driver bug, because the same code returns positive sizes when run
> against an Oracle database. Even DbVisualizer (from http://www.minq.se/)
> shows a negative column size. Can anyone help?
>
> FYI, I'm using the 7.2 JDBC2 driver. (I can't use the 7.3 driver because of
> the objsubid bug that was recently discussed on the list.)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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