Kathey Marsden wrote: > Rick Hillegas wrote: > >> How do we expect to influence the DRDA spec? >> > I don't know. But it sure would be nice to see some simple things > added to support JDBC. Here are a few example concerns. > There seems to be no protocol for > - Negotiating client locale up front for message text. We use stored > procedures to retrieve message text. > - Closing a prepared statement. DERBY-210 remains open for this reason. > - Retrieving database metadata. Again we use stored procedures. > - Sending protocol for Statement level settings like setQueryTimeout. I > forget what our workaround here was but certainly Derby specific. > > So it certainly would be nice to see these things addressed in the spec.
Though if one can use the existing specification and acheive the same functionality, it might be better to continue to build above the spec, rather than force items into it. For example, are they any issues with using procedures for database meta data, what benefits would we get from pushing functionality into the spec? Seems like from the JDBC driver it's a request which results in a set of rows, which is obviously already handled by the spec. Dan.
