Re: BUG #1449: JDBC client driver bug waiting to happen

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Michael Robinton wrote:

> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference:      1449
> PostgreSQL version: 7.4.6
> Description:        JDBC client driver bug waiting to happen
> Details:
>
> if "int size" is set to 8, there is insufficient storage in "int n" to
> accomodate 8 bytes of storage since jave thinks an int is 4 bytes. Since
> currently no 8 byte longs are sent, this bug is not apparent.
>
> /*
>          * Receives an integer from the backend
>          */
>         public int ReceiveInteger(int siz) throws SQLException
>         {

This is not a bug.  The ReceiveInteger function you are looking at is a
part of the low level protocol code and int size will never be > 4.  It
has nothing to do with how something like ResultSet.getLong() treats
integer values.

Kris Jurka