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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:51:16 -0400
From: Ken Kachnowich <khkachn@toad.net>
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To: Postgres interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: JDBC Serialize work
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I have been doing some work on the Serialize class in the JDBC and
have a couple questions on what is the best way to handle
somethings. If someone else has already fixed this stuff, please
let me know how to get the code.

private & protected variables:
 Right now I skip them so they are not in the class table.
 I was considering looking for a get and set method for the variable
 and using those, like they do with the Beans. 

final variables:
 I put these in the class table but skip them when fetching the data
 back into an object. 

array variables:
 Not real sure what to do here. I thought about creating a variable
 table (className_variableName) with an oid field to link back to the
 class table record and make the array field an oid type with the oid 
 of the variableName table. 

class variable:
 Same as for array, I guess.

I can check in my small fixes so far if someone lets me know how to get
access.

Thanks,

Ken