From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200105081634.f48GYgn04910@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [JDBC] Re: Trouble with JDBC2 ResultSet.getDate()
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105081701090.27703-100000@suhkur.cc.ioc.ee>
	"from Juhan-Peep Ernits at May 8, 2001 05:20:40 pm"
To: Juhan-Peep Ernits <juhan@cc.ioc.ee>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 12:34:42 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>, pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org,
	pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
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So, I am concluding that the timestamp patch should not be applied the
jdbc tree.

> 
> Hello!
> 
> We solved the problem by patching the code of the jdbc driver (since the
> new code has ResultSet.getStatement() method and other useful
> enhancements) for some time, while we changed the code to use
> getTimestamp() method, since it is not a good idea to stick to patching
> the code of the jdbc driver. 
> 
> Of course it would be more comfortable if one could use getDate on a
> timestamp field, but it is not by default always available.
> 
> In our case the new approach lead to more robust code (more typesafe),
> and in addition there were also a few other things that resolved when we
> started to use the new driver, so eventually we benefitted a lot of it. It
> depends how much code you have to rewrite but I'd suggest doing that.
> 
> Juhan Ernits
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 8 May 2001, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> 
> > I just got bitten by this too. I use type timestamp in the
> > database, and often need the latest timestamp, but want to
> > format it as a date. With 7.0.x, I just
> > 
> >  select ts from foo order by ts desc limit 1
> > 
> > and in java: d = res.getDate(1); 
> > 
> > but this fails everywhere in my code now :(
> 
> 
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