Wrong metadata retrieved when using Oracle8.1.7 + classes12.zip

Question

Hi,
I am using Oracle8.1.7+classes12.zip+jdk1.2.2.
I am always retrieving the wrong metadata for the tables. The same piece of code works fine when using Oracle8.1.5+classes111b.zip+jdk1.2.2.
The code is as follows :
try {
db = Database.getDatabase();
con = db.getConnection();
ps = con.prepareStatement("SELECT * FROM " + tablename);
meta = (ps.executeQuery()).getMetaData();
} catch(SQLException e) {
Debug.log("ServerMetaCache::requestMeta " + e);
System.err.println("ServerMetaCache::requestMeta " + e);
return null;
The following is a list of the column name retrived from the metadata :
TABLE_CAT
TABLE_SCHEM
TABLE_NAME
COLUMN_NAME
KEY_SEQ
pk_name
Anyone encountered this before?
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Answer 1

The code I posted above was incomplete.
The complete code is as shown below:
db = Database.getDatabase();
con = db.getConnection();
ps = con.prepareStatement("SELECT * FROM " + tablename);
meta = (ps.executeQuery()).getMetaData();
try {
int count = meta.getColumnCount();
columns = new ColumnDefinition[count];
System.out.println("tname = " + tname);
System.out.println("column count = " + count);
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) { // arrays starts from 0 while columns start from 1
String colName = meta.getColumnName(i+1); // get the database name for this column
System.out.println("colName = " + colName);
catch(SQLException e) {
System.err.println(e.toString());
The result is :
tname = Product
column count = 6
colName = TABLE_CAT
colName = TABLE_SCHEM
colName = TABLE_NAME
colName = COLUMN_NAME
colName = KEY_SEQ
colName = PK_NAME
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