Re: JDBC 4 support

So first hurdle:

Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Method
org.postgresql.jdbc4.Jdbc4Connection.createBlob() is not yet
implemented.

Same for createClob and createNClob

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:56 -0500, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> Internally Hibernate needs very little.
>
> I'd like to take advantage of Connection#createBlob,
> Connection#createClob and Connection#createNClob (we do not really offer
> built in support for the new SQLXML type, so we wont be binding to
> Connection#createSQLXML(), etc, though of course users might want to as
> an extension).
>
> I'd like to be able to leverage the new exception hierarchy.
>
> For everything else, its really just a curiosity about what the user can
> reasonably expect in terms of portability.
>
>
> On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:37 -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
> > So what functionality of JDBC4 do you need/want for hibernate ?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Steve Ebersole <steve(at)hibernate(dot)org>
> > wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply. Its more of a general question.
> >
> > I am looking at adding JDBC4 (JDK1.6) support to Hibernate.
> > So the
> > question came up about whether to drop JDBC3 support or
> > whether to
> > support both JDBC3 and JDBC4 simultaneously. Moving to JDBC4
> > exclusively is largely a function of how well we thought
> > JDBC4/JDK1.6 is
> > supported both in the various environments as well by the
> > various JDBC
> > drivers.
> >
> > Sun's JDK 1.5 is nearing the end of its EOL transition and set
> > to reach
> > ESOL Oct 31. So in the ideal world (since the release I am
> > targeting
> > here is November) we would simply drop support for it...
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:07 -0400, Kris Jurka wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> > >
> > > > The download page[1] still lists JDBC 4 support as
> > "limited" saying that
> > > > "the majority of new methods are stubbed out". Is that
> > really still the
> > > > case? How far off is complete JDBC 4 support?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Tough to say without going through each JDBC 4 feature. The
> > note you
> > > mention is certainly old, but there are still significant
> > JDBC4
> > > requirements that haven't been implemented (Wrapper support,
> > specific
> > > exceptions, ...).
> > >
> > > Is there anything in particular that you're interested in?
> > >
> > > Kris Jurka
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> >
> > Steve Ebersole <steve(at)hibernate(dot)org>
> > Hibernate.org
> >
> >
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