org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: The column name x was not found in this ResultSet.

I'm pretty sure this is a bug, and it seems most likely to be in the
JDBC driver, but I'm not sure.

As part of testing for a possible conversion to PostgreSQL, I ran our
replication process against a converted copy of our largest database
(about 200 GB). I ran in about 2 million database transactions, and I
got two of these exceptions. There were multiple threads applying
transactions, each with its own JDBC connection. An update is done by
getting an updatable ResultSet with a SELECT * FROM TableName WHERE
<primary key columns match literals>, using the
ResultSet.updateObject(String, Object) method, based on a Map of new
values, then invoking the ResultSet.updateRow method. The referenced
column definitely exists in the table for which the SELECT * was run.
The stack trace within the driver is pretty short:

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: The column name isQuestReturned was
not found in this ResultSet.
at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.findColumn(AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java:2381)

at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.updateObject(AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java:1511)

at <my code> . . .
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

For something that occurs once per million database transactions, it's
hard to create a simple test case. I'm hoping someone can spot a
possible cause. Given the circumstances, it looks like some race
condition between the multiple JDBC threads might be involved.

The version of the JDBC driver I'm using is PostgreSQL 8.0 JDBC3 with
SSL (build 311), except that on June 8th I incorporated the latest
version of AbstractJdbc2ResultSet from the stable 8.0 branch, to pick up
a fix I needed.

-Kevin