Re: Re: JDBC int8 hack

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Kyle VanderBeek <kylev(at)yaga(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk
Subject: Re: Re: JDBC int8 hack
Date: 2001-04-13 16:51:59
Message-ID: 4617.987180719@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Kyle VanderBeek <kylev(at)yaga(dot)com> writes:
> Please consider applying my patch to the 7.0 codebase as a stop-gap
> measure until such time as the optimizer can be improved to notice
> indecies on INT8 columns and cast INT arguments up.

I think it's an extremely bad idea to hack up JDBC to get around a
backend shortcoming. The hack will persist and cause problems long
after the real issue has been fixed.

regards, tom lane

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