DatabaseMetaData.getVersionColumns BUFFER_LENGTH column

[Lance Andersen]

This has been documented this way going back to the early JDBC days and we went through a review of this method back in 2005.  I would implement if at all possible


> On Sep 29, 2018, at 5:34 AM, Mark Rotteveel <mark at lawinegevaar.nl> wrote:
> 
> I'm currently implementing DatabaseMetaData.getVersionColumns for Jaybird, and I noticed that this defines the BUFFER_LENGTH column as "length of column value in bytes", while all other metadata methods that include BUFFER_LENGTH specify "is not used".
> 
> Is BUFFER_LENGTH really intended to be implemented for getVersionColumns, or is just leaving it null good enough? And if so, should the API documentation be amended?
> 
> Mark
> -- 
> Mark Rotteveel

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