very interesting JDBC problem ...

Hi everybody,

I am facing an interesting problem with some JDBC drivers. I am doi9ng
some fairly simple SQL:

microtec=# UPDATE t_consoleserver SET data = data || '021011014504'
WHERE procid = '47';
UPDATE 1

My program gives me the following logging information:

[Mar 31, 2004 10:16:01 PM] - 0 - NOTICE: old data in db:
[Mar 31, 2004 10:16:01 PM] - 0 - NOTICE: adding data to buffer:
(021011014504)
[Mar 31, 2004 10:16:01 PM] - 0 - NOTICE: DSQL: UPDATE t_consoleserver
SET data = data || '021011014504' WHERE procid = '57'
[Mar 31, 2004 10:16:01 PM] - 0 - NOTICE: cannot update data in database:
ERROR: invalid message format

The code is fairly simple:

Elog.Elog("old data in db: " + this.readOnly());
Elog.Elog("adding data to buffer: (" + newdata + ")");

try
{
String dsql = "UPDATE t_consoleserver "
+ "SET data = data || '" + newdata
+ "' WHERE procid = '" + procid + "' ";
Elog.Elog("DSQL: " + dsql);

stmt.executeUpdate(dsql);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Elog.Elog("cannot update data in database: "
+ e.getMessage());
}

curpos += newdata.length();

The interesting thing here is that I have used the same code with the
JDBC driver which is included in 7.3. It did not work as well but the
error message was different. "tail -f postgres_log" told me that only
half of the query has been transmitted to the server:

UPDATE t_consoleserver SET data = data || '021011014504

The rest has been discarded silently. PostgreSQL complains that there is
a syntax error or course.
Removing "|| '021011014504' " solved the problem and the entire query
was transmitted as well.

By the way: "invalid message format" is sent by build 301.
Did anybody encounter similar problem?
I coded SQL statement number 1.0000000000000....000000 in this
application but the only statement making use of || seems to cause problems.

Did anybody encounter similar problems?

Regards,

Hans

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