Re: error getString() --> decodeUTF8 /

AFAIK, the problem is the encoding, not the locale. Did you try initdb
-E latin1 ???

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Daniel Serodio

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 07:09, Pedro Salazar wrote:
> Barry,
>
> Besides the improved message issue, I tried with a database with the
> default locale (C), but I also tried to restore the database to the
> cluster with portuguese locale (pt_PT) (initdb --locale=pt_PT
> --lc-colate=pt_PT --lc-ctype=pt_PT --lc-message=pt_PT), and I still have
> the same error in JDBC (not the improved message, but the error).
>
> What configurations should I have to support portuguese locale in my
> database/JDBC?
>
> thanks,
> Pedro Salazar.
>
> On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 16:46, Barry Lind wrote:
> > 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.
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