From: Peter T Mount <patches@maidast.demon.co.uk>

This patch fixes a few results in DatabaseMetaData, and updates the README
and TODO files (the later being a new file).

The TODO file lists the things that need to be looked into after 6.2 is
released, and describes the problem with Large Objects.

src/interfaces/jdbc/Makefile

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #    Makefile for Java JDBC interface
 #
 # IDENTIFICATION
-#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/jdbc/Attic/Makefile,v 1.1 1997/09/26 08:22:21 scrappy Exp $
+#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/jdbc/Attic/Makefile,v 1.2 1997/09/29 20:11:42 scrappy Exp $
 #
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ postgresql.jar: $(OBJS)
 clean:
 	$(FIND) . -name "*~" -exec $(RM) {} \;
 	$(FIND) . -name "*.class" -exec $(RM) {} \;
-	$(RM) postgres.jar
+	$(RM) postgresql.jar
 
 #######################################################################
 # This helps make workout what classes are from what source files

src/interfaces/jdbc/README

@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ PS: When you run make, don't worry if you see just one or two calls to javac.
     it will compile it automatically. This reduces the numer of calls to javac
     that make has to do.
 
+Possible problems
+
+You may see a message similar to:
+
+postgresql/Driver.java:87: interface java.sql.Connection is an interface. It can't be instantiated.
+    return new Connection (host(), port(), props, database(), url, this);
+
+This is caused by not having the current directory in your CLASSPATH. Under
+Linux/Solaris, unset the CLASSPATH environment variable, and rerun make.
+
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 INSTALLING THE DRIVER
@@ -128,20 +138,6 @@ methods to retrive these types.
 Also, when using these classes, their toString() methods return the correct
 syntax for writing these to the database.
 
-TODO
-----
-
-Currently only host authentication is supported. Password authentication
-will be in there in a few days.
-
-Incorporating more features from the other driver (esp. in the MetaData's)
-
-Large Object support will also go in there, although it may not be done as
-pure JDBC, but as an extra API.
-
-Producing some documentation with javadoc - not all of the sources have them
-yet.
-
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Peter T Mount, August 30 1997

src/interfaces/jdbc/postgresql/DatabaseMetaData.java

@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ public class DatabaseMetaData implements java.sql.DatabaseMetaData
    */
   public boolean supportsMixedCaseIdentifiers() throws SQLException
   {
-    return true;
+    return false;
   }
   
   /**
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ public class DatabaseMetaData implements java.sql.DatabaseMetaData
    */
   public boolean storesLowerCaseIdentifiers() throws SQLException
   {
-    return false;
+    return true;
   }
   
   /**
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ public class DatabaseMetaData implements java.sql.DatabaseMetaData
    */
   public String getIdentifierQuoteString() throws SQLException
   {
-    return new String(" ");
+    return null;
   }
   
   /**
@@ -605,15 +605,17 @@ public class DatabaseMetaData implements java.sql.DatabaseMetaData
   
   /**
    * Can columns be defined as non-nullable.  A JDBC Compliant driver
-   * always returns true.  We dont support NOT NULL, so we are not
-   * JDBC compliant.
+   * always returns true.
+   *
+   * This changed from false to true in v6.2 of the driver, as this
+   * support was added to the backend.
    *
    * @return true if so
    * @exception SQLException if a database access error occurs
    */
   public boolean supportsNonNullableColumns() throws SQLException
   {
-    return false;
+    return true;
   }
   
   /**
@@ -801,7 +803,8 @@ public class DatabaseMetaData implements java.sql.DatabaseMetaData
    */
   public String getCatalogSeparator() throws SQLException
   {
-    return new String(".");
+    // PM Sep 29 97 - changed from "." as we don't support catalogs.
+    return new String("");
   }
   
   /**
@@ -1417,7 +1420,7 @@ public class DatabaseMetaData implements java.sql.DatabaseMetaData
    */
   public boolean dataDefinitionIgnoredInTransactions() throws SQLException
   {
-    return false;
+    return true;
   }
   
   /**