On 27 Sep 2004 at 11:36, Rhino wrote:
<snip>
> I really have no idea how Java is getting the information. I haven't tried
> very many of the metadata methods yet so I don't know how much Java can
> actually see and what is hidden. But I do know that it can see the
> descriptions of the columns.
>
> I had assumed that Mark Matthews, the guy who develops the JDBC drivers, had
> persuaded the other MySQL developers that the JDBC drivers *had* to be able
> to see the metadata and got permission to do that well in advance of the
> developers making the metadata available via the command line in the normal
> way for SQL catalogs. But that was strictly a wild guess; you may be totally
> correct in your assumptions.
Hi,
Maybe the Java driver is simply running this query:
USE database;
SHOW FIELDS FROM `tablename`;
and caching the result?
Regards
Ian
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