Re: help with front/backend datatype converting

Hi Leon,

No, currently there is no way to do this. It is possible, but this is
probably the worst data type to try this with. Postgresql has two
timestamp types, 1 with timezone, 1 without, jdbc has no knowledge of
this. Do you have suggestions on how to resolve this ? Also consider
the actual timezone, what if the timezone of the server is different
than the timezone of the client. To add to the problem, it is
possible for the server to keep dates/timestamps as 64bit integers,
or Floating point values. The client has to send the data in exactly
the right format.

Sorry to only outline the problems without constructive solutions.

Dave

On 10-Nov-06, at 3:58 PM, Do, Leon (Leon) wrote:

> Hi,
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> It looks like PostgreSQL JDBC always converting a column value to
> text before sending it to the Backend server. Is there a way to
> stop this behavior?
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> I am using the following piece of code to set the timestamp value:
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> ByteArrayInputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(bdata);
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> prepstmt.setBinaryStream(1,is,bdata.length);
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> java.sql.Timestamp sqltime = new
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> java.sql.Timestamp
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> prepstmt.setTimestamp(2,sqltime);
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> When the backend server receives the parse message, the oid type
> for binary data is set but the oid type for timestamp is not set.
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> When the bind message arrives, the format type for binary data is
> binary and the format type for timestamp is text and there is no
> way to know what is the type of the value anymore. Can I
> configure to disable text converting feature?
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> thanks
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> Leon Do
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> Lucent Technologies
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> Mobility Software Engineer
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