> I have not had any problems doing the conversion of prepared
> statements to String (as mentioned in my opening post) with 'MySQL
> Connector/J v3.1.10' and 'PostgreSQL v8.0-b312 Native JDBC3' drivers.

Ok, so we have at least two JDBC drivers - MySQL and PostgreSQL.

> What do you mean by "explicit method"?

FirebirdPreparedStatement.getSQL() for example. That would requite explicit
cast to the Firebird interfaces the same way people do this for Oracle ones.
Not nice, but conceptually it is more correct than using a standard
toString() method in a non-standard fashion.

Basically idea is: if this behavior is not standardized, we define a
standard extension that does not conflict with anything used before. If I'm
not mistaken, this was used consequently for all other JDBC extensions.

Roman