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Applied doc patch for the jdbc docs submitted by Nic Ferrier for functionality
he supplied a few months ago, but didn't get around to docing until now. And he also added some doc for calling stored functions in general from jdbc that was missing. Modified Files: sgml/jdbc.sgml
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$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Attic/jdbc.sgml,v 1.45 2003/06/30 16:39:42 barry Exp $
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$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Attic/jdbc.sgml,v 1.46 2003/08/06 23:50:19 barry Exp $
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<chapter id="jdbc">
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a <classname>Statement</classname> or
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<classname>PreparedStatement</classname>, you can use issue a
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query. This will return a <classname>ResultSet</classname>
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instance, which contains the entire result. <xref
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linkend="jdbc-query-example"> illustrates this process.
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instance, which contains the entire result (see <xref linkend="jdbc-query-with-cursor">
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here for how to alter this behaviour).
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<xref linkend="jdbc-query-example"> illustrates this process.
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</para>
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<example id="jdbc-query-example">
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</para>
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</example>
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<sect2 id="query-with-cursor">
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<title>Getting results based on a cursor</title>
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<para>By default the driver collects all the results for the
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query at once. This can be inconvieniant for large data sets so
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the JDBC driver provides a means of basing
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a <classname>ResultSet</classname> on a database cursor and
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only fetching a small number of rows.</para>
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<para>A small number of rows are cached on the
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client side of the connection and when exhausted the next
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block of rows is retrieved by repositioning the cursor.
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</para>
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<example>
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<title>Setting fetch size to turn cursors on and off.</title>
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<para>Changing code to cursor mode is as simple as setting the
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fetch size of the <classname>Statement</classname> to the
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appropriate size. Setting the fetch size back to 0 will cause
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all rows to be cached (the default behaviour).
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<programlisting>
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Statement st = db.createStatement();
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// Turn use of the cursor on.
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st.setFetchSize(50);
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ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM mytable");
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while (rs.next()) {
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System.out.print("a row was returned.");
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}
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rs.close();
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// Turn the cursor off.
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st.setFetchSize(0);
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ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM mytable");
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while (rs.next()) {
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System.out.print("many rows were returned.");
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}
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rs.close();
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// Close the statement.
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st.close();
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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<sect2>
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<title>Using the <classname>Statement</classname> or <classname>PreparedStatement</classname> Interface</title>
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</example>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="jdbc-callproc">
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<title>Calling Stored Functions</title>
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<para><productname>PostgreSQL's</productname> jdbc driver fully
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supports calling <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> stored
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functions.</para>
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<example id="jdbc-call-function">
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<title>Calling a built in stored function</title>
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<para>This example shows how to call
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a <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> built in
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function, <command>upper</command>, which simply converts the
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supplied string argument to uppercase.
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<programlisting>
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// Turn transactions off.
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con.setAutoCommit(false);
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// Procedure call.
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CallableStatement upperProc = con.prepareCall("{ ? = call upper( ? ) }");
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upperProc.registerOutParameter(1, Types.VARCHAR);
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upperProc.setString(2, "lowercase to uppercase");
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upperProc.execute();
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String upperCased = upperProc.getString(1);
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upperProc.close();
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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</example>
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<sect2>
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<title>Using the <classname>CallableStatement</classname> Interface</title>
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<para>
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All the considerations that apply
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for <classname>Statement</classname>
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and <classname>PreparedStatement</classname> apply
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for <classname>CallableStatement</classname> but in addition
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you must also consider one extra restriction:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>You can only call a stored function from within a
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transaction.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Obtaining <classname>ResultSet</classname> from a stored function</title>
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<para><productname>PostgreSQL's</productname> stored function
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can return results by means of a <type>refcursor</type>
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value. A <type>refcursor</type>.</para>
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<para>As an extension to JDBC,
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the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> JDBC driver can
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return <type>refcursor</type> values
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as <classname>ResultSet</classname> values.</para>
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<example id="get-refcursor-from-function-call">
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<title>Gettig <type>refcursor</type> values from a
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function</title>
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<para>When calling a function that returns
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a <type>refcursor</type> you must cast the return type
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of <methodname>getObject</methodname> to
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a <classname>ResultSet</classname></para>
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<programlisting>
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// Turn transactions off.
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con.setAutoCommit(false);
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// Procedure call.
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CallableStatement proc = con.prepareCall("{ ? = call doquery ( ? ) }");
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proc.registerOutParameter(1, Types.Other);
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proc.setInt(2, -1);
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proc.execute();
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ResultSet results = (ResultSet) proc.getObject(1);
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while (results.next()) {
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// do something with the results...
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}
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results.close();
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proc.close();
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</programlisting>
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</example>
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<para>It is also possible to treat the <type>refcursor</type>
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return value as a distinct type in itself. The JDBC driver
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provides
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the <classname>org.postgresql.PGRefCursorResultSet</classname>
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class for this purpose.</para>
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<example>
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<title>Treating <type>refcursor</type> as a distinct
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type</title>
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<programlisting>
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con.setAutoCommit(false);
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CallableStatement proc = con.prepareCall("{ ? = call doquery ( ? ) }");
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proc.registerOutParameter(1, Types.Other);
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proc.setInt(2, 0);
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org.postgresql.PGRefCursorResultSet refcurs
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= (PGRefCursorResultSet) con.getObject(1);
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String cursorName = refcurs.getRefCursor();
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proc.close();
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</programlisting>
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</example>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="jdbc-ddl">
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<title>Creating and Modifying Database Objects</title>
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