Re: BUG and FIX: getTables - SYSTEM TABLE

[Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

	http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.  JDBC maintainers will
review.


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Mitchell J. Friedman wrote:
> In getTables in DatabaseMetaData.java it looks like
> "TABLE" is returned as the TABLE_TYPE even if the
> table is a SYSTEM TABLE.  It looks like the
> getTableTypes code is working correctly - if SYSTEM
> TABLE is not requested then none are returned.
> 
> The problem appears to be in
>    case (byte) 'r':         
>        relKind = "TABLE";   
>        break;               
> which kind of forgets that sometimes an 'r' means a
> TABLE and other times a SYSTEM TABLE depending on
> TABLE_NAME.
> 
> the fix would be something like 
>    case (byte) 'r':
>       if (relname.r.getBytes(1).startsWith("pg_"))
>          relKind = "SYSTEM TABLE"
>       else
>          relKind = "TABLE";
>       break;
> 
> For what its worth I am new to this list - I tried
> searching the archive for this bug and was not able to
> read the archive.  Hopefully this bug and fix have
> already been posted - but if not...
> 
> mjf
> 
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