Why are clobs always "0"

Arnie Morein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
I have tested the most recent driver in three different SQL IDEs, and 
now with an application I'm writing that uses JDBC metadata, the 
comment on a field definition also isn't available as a string value.

The only thing I ever see regarding data type "text" field values are 
either a 0 or a 1; neither of which applies.

So why is this happening, even from the JDBC metadata results as well?
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