Re: jdbc and automagic casting

On 09/19/2011 10:39 AM, Guillaume wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an INSERT which does not behave the same under jdbc and psql.
>
> With psql, INSERTing a poperly formed VARCHAR into an inet column
> would work, eg.:
>
> =# \d user_record;
> Table "user_record"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> ----------------------+------------------------+-----------
> id | integer |
> username | character varying(64) |
> registered_ip | inet |
>
> INSERT INTO user_record (0, 'abc', '127.0.0.1') is valid and works.
> The string is automagically casted as an inet value.
>
> Using jdbc, this is not the case, and causes me loads of trouble (and
> exceptions).
> Is there a way around it?
>
> I do not have access to the java source code, there is thus no way to
> update the code to programatically force a CAST.

do you know if they used preparedstatement or build dynamic sql?
for now , I'm not sure if it would make a difference in this case..

>
> Thanks for any help,
> Guillaume
>
>