un-named prepared statement wierdness

I have a test case which does the following in jdbc.


    PreparedStatement cur_def_stmt = conn.prepareStatement("declare
registrar_c cursor for select name from epp_dummy where id = ?");
         PreparedStatement cur_fetch_stmt = conn.prepareStatement
("fetch forward 1000 from registrar_c");

         cur_def_stmt.setInt(1, 18);
         cur_def_stmt.execute();
         ResultSet resultSet = cur_fetch_stmt.executeQuery();

         while(resultSet.next())
         {
             System.err.println(resultSet.getString(1));
         }

         conn.execSQLUpdate(";commit;");

On 7.4.x servers it errors out with

ERROR: no value found for parameter 1
   Location: File: execQual.c, Routine: ExecEvalParam, Line: 518
   Server SQLState: 42704

On 8.1.x servers it works fine ?

Here are the respective traces

7.4

simple execute, handler=org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement
$StatementResultHandler@57ea4a, maxRows=0, fetchSize=0, flags=23
  FE=> Parse(stmt=null,query="begin",oids={})
  FE=> Bind(stmt=null,portal=null)
  FE=> Execute(portal=null,limit=1)
  FE=> Sync
  <=BE ParseComplete [null]
  <=BE BindComplete [null]
  <=BE CommandStatus(BEGIN)
  <=BE ReadyForQuery(T)
simple execute, handler=org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement
$StatementResultHandler@568fb5, maxRows=0, fetchSize=0, flags=17
  FE=> Parse(stmt=null,query="declare registrar_c cursor for select
name from epp_dummy where id = $1",oids={23})
  FE=> Bind(stmt=null,portal=null,$1=<18>)
  FE=> Describe(portal=null)
  FE=> Execute(portal=null,limit=0)
  FE=> Sync
  <=BE ParseComplete [null]
  <=BE BindComplete [null]
  <=BE NoData
  <=BE CommandStatus(DECLARE CURSOR)
  <=BE ReadyForQuery(T)
simple execute, handler=org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement
$StatementResultHandler@199939, maxRows=0, fetchSize=0, flags=17
  FE=> Parse(stmt=null,query="fetch forward 1000 from
registrar_c",oids={})
  FE=> Bind(stmt=null,portal=null)
  FE=> Describe(portal=null)
  FE=> Execute(portal=null,limit=0)
  FE=> Sync
  <=BE ParseComplete [null]
  <=BE BindComplete [null]
  <=BE RowDescription(1)


8.1

simple execute, handler=org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement
$StatementResultHandler@4a7df6, maxRows=0, fetchSize=0, flags=23
  FE=> Parse(stmt=null,query="begin",oids={})
  FE=> Bind(stmt=null,portal=null)
  FE=> Execute(portal=null,limit=1)
  FE=> Sync
  <=BE ParseComplete [null]
  <=BE BindComplete [null]
  <=BE CommandStatus(BEGIN)
  <=BE ReadyForQuery(T)
simple execute, handler=org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement
$StatementResultHandler@2e323, maxRows=0, fetchSize=0, flags=17
  FE=> Parse(stmt=null,query="declare registrar_c cursor for select
name from epp_dummy where id = $1",oids={23})
  FE=> Bind(stmt=null,portal=null,$1=<18>)
  FE=> Describe(portal=null)
  FE=> Execute(portal=null,limit=0)
  FE=> Sync
  <=BE ParseComplete [null]
  <=BE BindComplete [null]
  <=BE NoData
  <=BE CommandStatus(DECLARE CURSOR)
  <=BE ReadyForQuery(T)
simple execute, handler=org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement
$StatementResultHandler@221e9e, maxRows=0, fetchSize=0, flags=17
  FE=> Parse(stmt=null,query="fetch forward 1000 from
registrar_c",oids={})
  FE=> Bind(stmt=null,portal=null)
  FE=> Describe(portal=null)
  FE=> Execute(portal=null,limit=0)
  FE=> Sync
  <=BE ParseComplete [null]
  <=BE BindComplete [null]
  <=BE RowDescription(1)
  <=BE DataRow
  <=BE CommandStatus(FETCH)
  <=BE ReadyForQuery(T)
simple execute, handler=org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement
$StatementResultHandler@701bdc, maxRows=0, fetchSize=0, flags=23
  FE=> Parse(stmt=null,query="commit",oids={})
  FE=> Bind(stmt=null,portal=null)
  FE=> Execute(portal=null,limit=1)
  FE=> Sync
  <=BE ParseComplete [null]
  <=BE BindComplete [null]
  <=BE CommandStatus(COMMIT)
  <=BE ReadyForQuery(I)
  FE=> Terminate


I presume this is a bug in the 7.4 server, but need some clarification.

Dave