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*
* Copyright (c) 2003-2008, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
*
* IDENTIFICATION
*   $PostgreSQL: pgjdbc/org/postgresql/core/BaseStatement.java,v 1.18 2008/01/08 06:56:27 jurka Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
package org.postgresql.core;

import org.postgresql.PGStatement;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.Vector;

/**
 * Driver-internal statement interface. Application code should not use
 * this interface.
 */
public interface BaseStatement extends PGStatement, Statement
{
    /**
     * Create a synthetic resultset from data provided by the driver.
     *
     * @param fields the column metadata for the resultset
     * @param tuples the resultset data
     * @return the new ResultSet
     * @throws SQLException if something goes wrong
     */
    public ResultSet createDriverResultSet(Field[] fields, Vector tuples) throws SQLException;

    /**
     * Create a resultset from data retrieved from the server.
     *
     * @param originalQuery the query that generated this resultset; used when dealing with updateable resultsets
     * @param fields the column metadata for the resultset
     * @param tuples the resultset data
     * @param cursor the cursor to use to retrieve more data from the server; if null, no additional data is present.
     * @return the new ResultSet
     * @throws SQLException if something goes wrong
     */
    public ResultSet createResultSet(Query originalQuery, Field[] fields, Vector tuples, ResultCursor cursor) throws SQLException;

    /**
     * Execute a query, passing additional query flags.
     *
     * @param p_sql the query to execute
     * @param flags additional {@link QueryExecutor} flags for execution; these
     *  are bitwise-ORed into the default flags.
     * @throws SQLException if something goes wrong.
     */
    public boolean executeWithFlags(String p_sql, int flags) throws SQLException;

    /**
     * Execute a prepared query, passing additional query flags.
     *
     * @param flags additional {@link QueryExecutor} flags for execution; these
     *  are bitwise-ORed into the default flags.
     * @throws SQLException if something goes wrong.
     */
    public boolean executeWithFlags(int flags) throws SQLException;
}