Re: JDBC String to Bool spec

http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/jcp/jdbc-4_1-mrel-spec/jdbc4.1-fr-spec.pdf?AuthParam=1484522754_78e98a772cf0c1f6c7f18ab76e324ff5

Has a table on page 211 if that is what you are looking for

Dave Cramer

davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
www.postgresintl.com

On 15 January 2017 at 18:20, Kevin Wooten <kdubb(at)me(dot)com> wrote:

> Does anybody know where in the specification it details the
> required/acceptable conversions from string values to boolean? I cannot
> seem to find it in the PDF for 4.2.
>
> I am curious about some of the conversions that are done. For example,
> calling “ResultSet.getBoolean” on a text/varchar column with the value
> “1.0”. This conversion succeeds because the driver (both pgjdbc & ng)
> fallback to decoding the column as a double then converting that by testing
> it “== 1”; which seems valid but questionable since “!= 0” would also be
> valid, but vastly different.
>
> This is not allowed by Postgres (e.g. “SELECT “1.0”::bool;” results in an
> error) and I cannot find anything in JDBC as of yet.
>
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