Current specdiffs for JDBC 4.2

Mark Rotteveel mark at lawinegevaar.nl
Tue Dec 18 11:35:55 PST 2012


On 18-12-2012 20:18, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lancea/8005080/specdiffs.00/java/sql/DatabaseMetaData-report.html#method:supportsRefCursors()
>
> What are REF CURSORs, and what are the semantics of a REF CURSOR; is
> this purely a change to support the Oracle concept of ref cursor, or are
> there other databases that support this (or a similar) concept (if so
> which databases)?

I also didn't actually seem to find anything else in the API that 
exposes REF CURSOR (eg a specific getter (or setter?) in ResultSet or 
CallableStatement), nor did I find an interface for it. Is there 
actually anything exposing REF CURSOR in the API?

Mark
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