Q: use setObject also for int or string

Hello all,
in my application, queries with placeholder are created in a generic way without
knowing if the column is string or integer.
It uses setString(1, "1") even on int columns.
This was working for the pg74*.jar

Now I want to upgrade (postgresql-8*.jar I measured 20% speedup in selects)
but with version 8 I get Exception:
ERROR: operator does not exist: bigint = character varying

In the thread "macaddr data type and prepared statements"
I found that I can use setObject(1, "1", Types.OTHER);
and this works for me too.

My question is if this is the "correct" way to continue
(I can exchange all the setString with setObject but I can not
find out the datatype of the columns in an easy way)
or if this has drawbacks I do not see at the moment.

Thank you and regards,
Michael

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