Re: Bug found in the driver

At 20:20 08.08.01 -0700, Barry Lind wrote:
>I can't reproduce this error with a 1.3.1 JDK and the 7.1.2 driver. When
>disabling access through pg_hba.conf I get the following correct error
>with the {0} filled in by the exception information:
>
>Something unusual has occured to cause the driver to fail. Please report
>this exception: Exception: java.sql.SQLException: No pg_hba.conf entry for
>host 127.0.0.1, user blind, database xythos3

Surprising ! I deleted the errors.fr file and now the error diseaperead !

Which means there is a problem either in the locale language support or
somewhere else... ... We'll never find I think ;-) It's maybe even not in
the driver ?

Denis

>Denis Bucher wrote:
>>At 22:01 03.08.01 +0200, you wrote:
>>Hello !
>>
>>>On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 15:06:46 +0200, Denis Bucher wrote:
>>> >I've FOUND A BUG in the postgres JDBC driver !
>>>
>>>OK, please help us fix it.
>>>
>>> >If you want to see the source online :
>>> >http://cs.baylor.edu/~speegle/5335/org/postgresql/
>>> >
>>> >Please look at Driver.class :
>>> >
>>> >     } catch(Exception ex2) {
>>> >         throw new PSQLException("postgresql.unusual",ex2);
>>> >
>>> >But it doesn't print the exception ex2 !!!
>>>
>>>This code is not supposed to print an exception. Please be more
>>>specific. What are you doing exactly? Why are we looking at this
>>>particular line of source code? What exception did you expect?
>>>Why did you expect it to be printed?
>>
>>Ok, this line prints the following message :
>>Quelque chose de peu commun s'est produit pour faire ?échouer le
>>gestionnaire. Veuillez enregistrer cette exception: {0}
>>which is the french version of :
>>Something unusual has occured to cause the driver to fail.
>>Please report this exception: {0}
>>BUT it doesn't print the exception between '{' and '}' which makes
>>VERY hard to debug the problem. I found LOTS of emails in
>>mailing-lists only due to this problem : If the exception was
>>printed, people wouldn't have asked because they would have
>>seen "this host is not present in hba_conf", or something like
>>that. With my 'kludge-correction' it PRINTS the EXACT exception
>>that made the driver fail :
>>throw new PSQLException("postgresql.unusual: " + ex2);
>>But I know my correction isn't 'clean' because it circumvents the
>>PSQLException method that IMHO SHOULD print out the exception,
>>or else why the hell would there be that message "please report this
>>exception : {0}" AND why whould 'ex2' be mentionned ?
>>Denis
>>
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