Hi. I am using Hibernate 2.1.8

The net.sf.hibernate.sql.Updater contains the below method:

public Update addColumn(String columnName, Object value, LiteralType type) throws Exception {
return addColumn( columnName, type.objectToSQLString(value) );
}


However i cannot find it being used anywhere. I am wishing to take advantage of the objectToSQLString(Object value) method of the LiteralType but cannot see any way to do it. It appears to be a redundant method?

Does anyone know if this method is not being utilized on purpose?

Thanks.