Re: setMaxFieldSize

Barry Lind wrote:
> Fernando,
>
> No reason that I can think of. That code predates my involvement.
>
> thanks,
> --Barry
>

We will try and fix it then.

Thanks Barry.

Regards,
Fernando

> Fernando Nasser wrote:
>
>> Can you someone tell me why we do not implement this? The comment
>> does not explain why the "NOT!".
>>
>> All we have to do is to properly truncate the received values. If this
>> is a good programming practice or not it is debatable, but it is in
>> the JDBC standard anyway. It may even be useful for some applications
>> out there.
>>
>>
>> /*
>> * Sets the maxFieldSize - NOT! - We throw an SQLException just
>> * to inform them to stop doing this.
>> *
>> * @param max the new max column size limit; zero means unlimited
>> * @exception SQLException if a database access error occurs
>> */
>> public void setMaxFieldSize(int max) throws SQLException
>> {
>> throw new PSQLException("postgresql.stat.maxfieldsize");
>> }
>>
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