The VerticaTypes class

JDBC does not support all of the data types that Vertica supports. The Vertica JDBC client driver contains an additional class named VerticaTypes that helps you handle identifying these Vertica-specific data types. It contains constants that you can use in your code to specify Vertica data types. This class defines two different categories of data types:

• Vertica's 13 types of interval values. This class contains constant properties for each of these types. You can use these constants to select a specific interval type when instantiating members of the VerticaDayTimeInterval and VerticaYearMonthInterval classes:

  // Create a day to second interval.
  VerticaDayTimeInterval dayInt = new VerticaDayTimeInterval(
          VerticaTypes.INTERVAL_DAY_TO_SECOND, 10, 0, 5, 40, 0, 0, false);
  // Create a year to month interval.
  VerticaYearMonthInterval monthInt = new VerticaYearMonthInterval(
          VerticaTypes.INTERVAL_YEAR_TO_MONTH, 10, 6, false);
  

• Vertica UUID data type. One way you can use the VerticaTypes.UUID is to query a table's metadata to see if a column is a UUID. See UUID values for an example.

See the JDBC documentation for more information on this class.