Re: JDBC: getMoreResults() versus rs.next() & autoGeneratedKeys
On 12/20/2013 9:07 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
I have to write code to execute runtime-specified SQL-statements,
and there are two things that I wasn't able to understand from reading
the javadocs:
2.)
As I don't know the statement beforehand, I can't decide at coding
time, if it might be an "insert" eventually returning a serial key,
and thusly requiring the argument RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS), or a select
that will need cursor-like treatment such as passing resultSetType,
resultSetConcurrency and resultSetHoldability flags.
How would I tell the JDBC engine, that if it is a select then it
should pass certain flags, and if it is an insert, then I would be
interested in the generated keys? prepareStatement() doesn't seem to
have an overload to accept both variants.
True - you would need to know whether it is a SELECT or an INSERT.
Just like you need to know whether to call executeQuery or
executeUpdate.
Finally, why isn't RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS the default, anyway?
In most implementations it result in another round trip to
the server with a SELECT.
That is a significant overhead for something that is rarely
needed.
Arne
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