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-Ok, here's the JDBC patch.
-
-The jdbc6.3.tar.gz file that I've uploaded ftp.postgresql.org contains the
-following files:
-
-README_6.3 This message
-blob.patch The patch to src/backend/tcop/fastpath.c fixing large objects
-jdbc.tar The entire jdbc driver
-
-I've put the entire driver here, rather than a patch, because its become
-too complicated to do one this time. Files have been moved, two files
-removed because they were obsolete, and there are a lot of new files.
-
-Heres what the patch does:
-
-* Memory overflow problem in the backend causing large objects to fail in
- both libpq & jdbc (causing the backend to crash with a Segmentation
- Violation)
-* Problem with equals() method on the geometric support classes if the
- class being checked wasn't the same class
-* Fixed output of PGpath and PGpolygon support classes (missing , separator)
-* Optimised the geometric support classes
-* HTMLised the inline documentation, so the output of javadoc is easier
- to read (mainly paragraphs)
-* Removed obsolete class PGlobj (it never worked, and has been replaced
- to read (mainly paragraphs)
-* Removed obsolete class PGlobj (it never worked, and has been replaced
- by the postgresql.largeobject package)
-* Removed obsolete example JDBC_Test.java (replaced by new examples)
-* Added < and > to nesting in PGtokenizer.
-* Added fastpath support as a new package
-* Added large object support as a new package
-* Added ability of user code to handle custom storage types.
-* Added new example testing the importing and exporting of a large object
-* Added example application showing how to store and display images stored
- as large objects
-* Added example implementing part of psql client. This shows how to find out
- what tables/columns are in a database (not yet complete)
-* ResultSet.getBytes() now returns large object if field is an oid
-* ResultSet.getString() now doesn't call getBytes() as this now would
- cause an infinite loop because of large object support in getBytes()
-* PreparedStatement.setBytes() now create a large object, and store its
- oid into the column
-* Reworked date style handling to make it easier to support new styles
-* Added german and ISO styles, now all styles supported by postgresql
- are now supported by the driver
-* Fixed DatabaseMetaData.getTables()
-* DatabaseMetaData.getTableTypes() returns our supported types.
-* Fixed DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()
-
-These three are required for Borland's JBuilder to work. For now they
-return an empty result, as I'm not sure yet on how to get the
-required results.
-* DatabaseMetaData.getBestRowIdentifier()
-* DatabaseMetaData.getProcedureColumns()
-* DatabaseMetaData.getIndexInfo()
-
-Finally, one change that is incompatible with earlier versions of the
-driver. This change only affects any client code that uses the geometric
-classes (eg: PGpoint) or the getObject()/setObject() methods.
-
-Because of a problem with javac, if user code includes the line:
-
-import postgresql.*;
-
-then javac will fail, saying that interfaces cannot be instanciated.
-
-To fix this, I've moved these classes into a new sub package,
-postgresql.geometric and the PG_Object (renamed PGobject), and PGtokenizer
-to postgresql.util.So the above line would become:
-
-import postgresql.geometric.*;
-
-Anyhow, I'm going to start writing some proper documentation for the
-driver. For now, there is some available temporarily at:
-
- http://www.demon.co.uk/finder/postgres/jdbc/packages.html
-