Re: [Hibernate] ClobType

[Gavin K. <ga...@ap...>]

> >Use of java.sql.Clob class is non-useful, since it provides no way to
> >update the data.
> >
> 
> In JDBC 3.0, which is in JDK 1.4, Clob has setAsciiStream, 
> setCharacterStream, setString and truncate methods to update data.  Is 
> it reasonable to require that people use JDBC 3.0 if they want full 
> support for CLOB's?  If we do this, we'd also have to provide an 
> implementation of java.sql.Clob.


Ah. Cool. I wasn't aware of that.


> What do you think about adding a hibernate.use_clobs property to decide 
> between the two?  If true, then Clobs are used.  Otherwise, use char[] 
> instead.

Nah, it would be better to provide two different ClobTypes with different 
names, if necessary. Properties are best for specifying behaviour thats
transparent to appplication code.