Re: setObject on PGInterval throws "Unknown Type null"

From: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
To: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
Cc: Jean-Pierre Pelletier <pelletier_32(at)sympatico(dot)ca>, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: setObject on PGInterval throws "Unknown Type null"
Date: 2005-01-25 23:33:07
Message-ID: 41F6D733.7010702@opencloud.com
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Kris Jurka wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Oliver Jowett wrote:
>
>
>>What about when we prepare a statement with a null parameter, then later
>>use it with a non-null parameter? There is some protocol code needed
>>here to get the inferred types back.
>>
>>We currently break in the case where parameter types change between
>>executions, but that's more easily fixable since we have all the
>>necessary information already available.
>>
>
>
> I'm not sure I'm willing to make that distinction, they seem like the same
> thing to me. If we fixed the second case and found the solution to the
> first intractable then you could make the case to require typed nulls, but
> since the second case is broken that argument doesn't carry a lot of
> weight with me.

It's not unfixable, it just means there is more work required to fix the
existing brokenness.

-O

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