On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Laferriere, Al wrote:

>                                     ResultSet rs =
> stmt.executeQuery("SELECT \"psdb \".\"public\".\"tt\".\"ans\" FROM
> \"psdb \".\"public\".\"tt\"");
> 
> java.sql.SQLException: ERROR: syntax error at end of input
> 
>  
> Also, there is no problem with UPDATE or INSERT statements when the
> catalog is included.  Only in the SELECT statement.

Doubtful:

jurka=# insert into catalog.schem.tab.col values (1,2,3);
ERROR:  improper qualified name (too many dotted names): 
catalog.schem.tab.col

> I did note that the driver does return false to
> connection.getMetaData().supportsCatalogsInDataManipulation(), so, there
> is actually no reason to expect that catalog qualifiers would be
> supported. However, as noted, it did work OK in 7.4 (even though the
> supportsCatalogsInDataManipulation() returned false there also).
> 

This did not work in 7.4 either, it even gives a much better error message 
than 8.0's "syntax error"

jurka=# select * from catalog.schem.tab;
ERROR:  cross-database references are not implemented


Kris Jurka

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