Re: setMaxFieldSize

Barry Lind wrote:
> Fernando,
>
> No reason that I can think of.  That code predates my involvement.
>
> thanks,
> --Barry

We will try and fix it then.

Thanks Barry.

Regards,
Fernando



> Fernando Nasser wrote:
>
> > 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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