setMaxFieldSize

Can you someone tell me why we do not implement this?  The comment does 
not explain why the "NOT!".

All we have to do is to properly truncate the received values. If this 
is a good programming practice or not it is debatable, but it is in the 
JDBC standard anyway.  It may even be useful for some applications out 
there.


        /*
         * Sets the maxFieldSize - NOT! - We throw an SQLException just
         * to inform them to stop doing this.
         *
         * @param max the new max column size limit; zero means unlimited
         * @exception SQLException if a database access error occurs
         */
        public void setMaxFieldSize(int max) throws SQLException
        {
                throw new PSQLException("postgresql.stat.maxfieldsize");
        }

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