getBlob problems with bytea type columns

I'm running Postgresql 7.1.2 on a RedHat 7.1 machine. I have the jdbc
drivers jdbc7.1-1.2.jar.

I have been trying to figure out how the blob support works. I made a
table of this format:

djweis=# \d blobtest
id | integer |
theblob | bytea |

This is the code that I'm using to grab the value of 'theblob':

conn.setAutoCommit(false);

PreparedStatement stmt = conn.prepareStatement("SELECT theblob
FROM blobtest WHERE id = ?");
stmt.setInt(1, 1);
ResultSet rset = stmt.executeQuery();

while (rset.next()) {

Blob foo = rset.getBlob("theblob");

System.out.println("length is " + foo.length());

}

But instead of getting just the length, I get this:

[djweis(at)djweis pgblob]$ java -cp jdbc7.1-1.2.jar:. test
hello, world
Bad Integer I wish this would work
at org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.getInt(ResultSet.java:269)
at org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.getBlob(ResultSet.java:964)
at org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.getBlob(ResultSet.java:959)
at test.main(test.java:30)
Bad Integer I wish this would work
[djweis(at)djweis pgblob]$

I never printed the contents of the blob, but there they are... I inserted
the data by hand, but once I figure out how to do this, I'll need to
insert the data from InputStreams and get it back using OutputStreams.

Any ideas?

Thanks
dave

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