Attached is the patch requested by Tom Lane (see below). It
includes two changes in the JDBC driver: 1) When connected to a backend >= 7.2: use obj_description() and col_description() instead of direct access to pg_description. 2) In DatabaseMetaData.getTables()/getColumns()/getProcedures(): when there is no comment on the object, return null in the REMARKS column of the ResultSet, instead of the default string "no remarks". Change 2 first appeared as a side-effect of change 1, but it is actually more compliant with the JDBC spec: "String object containing an explanatory comment on the table/column/procedure, which may be null". The default string "no remarks" was strictly speaking incorrect, as it could not be distinguished from a real user comment "no remarks". So I removed the default string completely. Change 2 might break existing code that doesn't follow the JDBC spec and isn't prepared to handle a null in the REMARKS column of getTables()/getColumns()/getProcedures. Patch tested with jdbc2 against both a 7.1 and a CVS tip backend. I did not have a jdbc1 environment to build and test with, but since the touched code is identical in jdbc1 and jdbc2 I don't foresee any problems. Regards, Ren? Pijlman
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