Re: JDBC bug?

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Lutischán Ferenc wrote:

> I found the following bug:
> Connect to database with password that contains special chars (E.g.: 
> Nyárfa10)  DriverManager.getConnection( dbUrl,   user,  pwd); will fail with:
> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: password authentication failed for 
> user "xy"
>
> jdbc driver: 8-3-603 with 8.3.6 postgresql
> From pgadmin connection is good with 'Nyárfa10' password.
>

A change to fix this has been made to the 8.4 driver series, so you will 
need to try the 8.4dev release.  It sends the password in UTF-8, which 
means you must set the password when connected to a UTF-8 database so it 
gets stored that way it the database.

Kris Jurka