Re: Bug in metadata.getColumns()/ORDINAL_POSITION

This is a quick followup to my earlier post. Upon
further
testing, this bug reliably and reproducably happens
when an "alter table" command is used on the database.

For for example:

test=# create table foo(x int, y varchar(5));

At this point, the jdbc metadata (md) method:

md.getColumns(
catalogname, schemaname, tablename, "%");

returns the correct ORDINAL_POSITION for x and y.

x -- >1
y ---> 2

Now, let's do this:

test=# alter table foo add z text;
ALTER TABLE
test=# alter table foo drop z;
ALTER TABLE
test=# alter table foo drop y;
ALTER TABLE
test=# alter table foo add a varchar(10);

md.getColumns(
catalogname, schemaname, tablename, "%");

now returns
x --> 1
a --> 4

and that's the bug right there.

Should be

a ---> 2 (NOT 4)

since there are only 2 columsn in the database
at this point.

Maybe the database is not updating the system tables
properly when columns are altered/dropped ? Or is
this something in the driver ?

Either way, this totally breaks any O/R mapping tool.

Best regards,

-j

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