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Kristian Waagan closed DERBY-4563.
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Closing.
> Avoid unnecessary use of getStream and getStreamWithDescriptor
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> Key: DERBY-4563
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4563
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: JDBC
> Affects Versions: 10.6.0.0
> Reporter: Kristian Waagan
> Assignee: Kristian Waagan
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 10.6.0.0
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> Attachments: derby-4563-1a-dvd_hasStream.diff,
> derby-4563-1a-dvd_hasStream.stat, derby-4563-1b-dvd_hasStream.diff,
> derby-4563-2a-replace_streamstorable_in_jdbclayer.diff
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> A pattern in Derby is to use the following piece of code to determine if the
> data value has a stream or not:
> if (dvd.getStream() != null) ...
> Since the stream has mutable state, obtaining a reference to it just to check
> if it is not null is sub-optimal for several reasons:
> - it may throw an exception (data types not supporting streams)
> - the stream reference is leaked, which is unfortunately if we are / will be
> required to guarantee something about the stream state (for instance that the
> descriptor is in sync with the stream).
> - in cases where we have to investigate the state of the stream, we're doing
> unnecessary work
> - makes it harder to write debug code (i.e., is a stream reference obtained
> from the data value descriptor more than once?)
> I plan to introduce the method DataValueDescriptor.hasStream, returning a
> boolean.
> In addition to the obvious check if the stream variable is non-null, it can
> also be used to instruct Derby to treat certain data values as non-streams
> even though the underlying value is currently a stream. One example is CHAR
> and VARCHAR, whose maximum lengths are so small that they should always be
> materialized to avoid the added complexity coming with streams (stream state,
> isolation levels - extra lock to keep stream stable?, cloning).
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