Re: meta data information returned for domains

From: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
To: Iain <iain(at)mst(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: meta data information returned for domains
Date: 2004-12-06 09:13:49
Message-ID: Pine.BSO.4.56.0412060412160.4347@leary.csoft.net
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On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Iain wrote:

> I'm using the JDBC database metadata facilities to get information about
> tables for the purposes of auto generating program code. This has all been
> working fine until I got to testing it on a database that uses domains as
> the datatypes for the columns.
>
> I havn't had a chance to investigate it thoroughly yet, but it I'm getting a
> datatype code of 1111 when the columns datatype is a domain. , I don't know
> if this has any special meaning or not, but it doesn't correspond to any of
> the java.sql types that I was comparing it to, so for now my code is broken.

1111 = Types.OTHER. We could consider resolving domains to their base
types and reporting that as the sql type. That seems like it would be
helpful in this situation.

Kris Jurka

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