Re: error getString() --> decodeUTF8 /

Pedro,

I was talking about database character set, not locale.  If you connect
to psql and issue the \l command you will see a listing of databases
with their character sets.

thanks,
--Barry

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.