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diff --git a/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/Driver.java.in b/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/Driver.java.in index c243a2f284f..a0d5c6e70b6 100644 --- a/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/Driver.java.in +++ b/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/Driver.java.in @@ -85,12 +85,26 @@ public class Driver implements java.sql.Driver * database. * * <p>The java.util.Properties argument can be used to pass arbitrary - * string tag/value pairs as connection arguments. Normally, at least + * string tag/value pairs as connection arguments. + * + * user - (optional) The user to connect as + * password - (optional) The password for the user + * charSet - (optional) The character set to be used for converting + * to/from the database to unicode. If multibyte is enabled on the + * server then the character set of the database is used as the default, + * otherwise the jvm character encoding is used as the default. + * compatible - This is used to toggle + * between different functionality as it changes across different releases + * of the jdbc driver code. The values here are versions of the jdbc + * client and not server versions. For example in 7.1 get/setBytes + * worked on LargeObject values, in 7.2 these methods were changed + * to work on bytea values. This change in functionality could + * be disabled by setting the compatible level to be "7.1", in + * which case the driver will revert to the 7.1 functionality. + * + * <p>Normally, at least * "user" and "password" properties should be included in the - * properties. In addition, the "charSet" property can be used to - * set a character set encoding (e.g. "utf-8") other than the platform - * default (typically Latin1). This is necessary in particular if storing - * multibyte characters in the database. For a list of supported + * properties. For a list of supported * character encoding , see * http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/internat/encoding.doc.html * Note that you will probably want to have set up the Postgres database |