Re: error getString() --> decodeUTF8 /

Pedro,

If you were running the latest build from http://jdbc.postgresql.org you
would see the following improved error message:

Invalid character data was found. This is most likely caused by stored
data containing characters that are invalid for the character set the
database was created in. The most common example of this is storing
8bit data in a SQL_ASCII database.

thanks,
--Barry

Pedro Salazar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I forgot to tell that I'm using the JDBC driver build from postgresql
> 7.3.2.
>
> PS
>
> On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 11:19, Pedro Salazar wrote:
>
>>Greetings,
>>
>>I have function that returns a refcursor. When I call it in plpgsql
>>shell, it returns all the rows correctly. But, When I call it in JDBC,
>>when it tries to decode a string in specific row (7) it throws the
>>following exception:
>>
>>java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 5
>> at org.postgresql.core.Encoding.decodeUTF8(Encoding.java:254)
>> at org.postgresql.core.Encoding.decode(Encoding.java:165)
>> at org.postgresql.core.Encoding.decode(Encoding.java:181)
>> at
>>org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1ResultSet.getString(AbstractJdbc1ResultSet.java:97)
>>
>>My refcursor returns the following list (the characters are in
>>portuguese language):
>>
>> id | class
>>----+-------------
>> 1 | Avenida
>> 2 | Bairro
>> 3 | Cais
>> 4 | Estrada
>> 5 | Largo
>> 6 | Lugar
>> 7 | Praça
>> 8 | Rotunda
>> 9 | Rua
>> 10 | Sítio
>> 11 | Travessa
>> 12 | Urbanização
>>
>>The row number 7 (Praça) [character 'C' with cedilla] is throwing the
>>above exception. How should I retrieve my string which has portuguese
>>characters, in JDBC?
>>
>>thanks,
>>Pedro Salazar.