RE: bytea not recognized by JDBC (7.0.2)

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Peter Mount
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier Jeannet [mailto:jeannet(at)montrouge(dot)tt(dot)slb(dot)com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 4:42 PM
> To: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [INTERFACES] bytea not recognized by JDBC (7.0.2)

[snip]

> How can I select a "bytea" field ?

getBytes() should work.

> Is this a bug of the JDBC driver (or a not implemented feature) ?

No not quite. getObject() currently doesn't know about bytea, so it's
passing it on to the Serializable code which is then failing.

> I have looked at the mailing-list but didn't find the answer to my
> problem.

Actually I cant remember anyone asking about bytea, which is why it's got
overlooked.

Peter