On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 22:01:17 -0500, you wrote:

>public boolean isWritable(int column) throws SQLException
>{
>        if (isReadOnly(column))
>                return true;
>        else
>                return false;
>}

The author probably intended:

    public boolean isWritable(int column) throws SQLException
    {
        return !isReadOnly(column);
    }

And if he would have coded it this way he wouldn't have made
this mistake :-)

>hence, isWritable() will always return false. this is something
>of a problem :)

Why exactly? In a way, true is just as incorrect as false, and
perhaps it should throw "not implemented". But I guess that
would be too non-backwardly-compatible.

>let me know if i can provide further information.

Will you submit a patch?

Regards,
Ren? Pijlman <rene@lab.applinet.nl>

src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/ResultSetMetaData.java

@@ -419,10 +419,7 @@ public class ResultSetMetaData implements java.sql.ResultSetMetaData
    */
   public boolean isWritable(int column) throws SQLException
   {
-    if (isReadOnly(column))
-      return true;
-    else
-      return false;
+    return !isReadOnly(column);
   }
   
   /**