Re: "Unable to fathom update count" - what does it mean?

From: Barry Lind <barry(at)xythos(dot)com>
To: Graham Leggett <minfrin(at)sharp(dot)fm>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "Unable to fathom update count" - what does it mean?
Date: 2001-11-22 01:37:12
Message-ID: 3BFC56C8.2070803@xythos.com
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Graham,

This is a bug in the driver. oids are unsigned ints, but the java code
is assuming the value is a signed int. Thus the value is larger than
the java int can handle. I will work on a fix over the weekend.

thanks,
--Barry

Graham Leggett wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a server which has started giving a weird error during a database
> INSERT:
>
> Unable to fathom update count INSERT 3523561677 1
>
> I have an identical setup on a staging server that does not show this
> problem - however before I can try do something about it I need to
> understand just what this error message is trying to tell me.
>
> I have trawled documentation and mailing lists, however it seems there
> is no description anywhere of the error messages within the Postgrsql
> JDBC driver. Does this info exist anywhere?
>
> Can anyone explain to me what this error is trying to tell me?
>
> Regards,
> Graham
>

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