Re: ResultSetMetaData.getColumnDisplaySize returns 2147483647 ?

[DGPickett <DGPickett(at)aol(dot)com>]

On Feb 26, 1:18 pm, bo(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)ejurka(dot)com (Kris Jurka) wrote:

> The server is responsible for determining the type and length of data, not
> the JDBC driver.  The server tells the JDBC driver that it is unknown and
> the driver has to do something with it.  You are still ignoring the fact
> that there must be cases where the server cannot possibly know the length
> of a piece of data even if it was capable of of handling the simpler
> cases.
>
> Kris Jurka
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Well, can the JDBC team raise this issue with the postgres server
team, that many relatively obvious cases are being marked 'width
unknown'?