Rick Hillegas wrote: > Hi Lance, > > Is it OK for a JDBC3 implementation to return more information than the > spec demands? In particular, consider the various result sets returned > by DatabaseMetaData calls. Is it OK for these result sets to contain > additional, trailing columns, above and beyond the columns required by > the JDBC3 spec? To be even more pedantic, can JDBC3 implementations > return the fatter JDBC4 result sets?
JDBC tutorial & reference, version 2.0, sdection 15.2.2, page 369 says: "A DBMS may define additional columns for a ResultSet object that is returned by a DatabaseMetaData method". Not officially part of the spec, but I've always assumed the tutorial books are a good guideline of the spec, given the authors. Dan.
