Re: Strange behaviour of JDBC driver for PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

Carlos,

Sorry, I didn't read your email carefully enough. The driver won't work
with a 6.5.2 database, my apologies. You will need to upgrade the remote
server

Dave

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 12:54, Carlos Correia wrote:
> I have problems with PostgreSQL when connecting from another machine in
> the same network, after upgrading to 7.2.2 (Mandrake 9.0).
>
> When invoking 'getColumns()' on a DatabaseMetaData object I get (very)
> different results when I invoke it in the local machine (in which works
> good) then when I invoke it in another machine in the network as you can
> see below:
>
> I've made a small Java class to reproduce its bizarre behaviour (I'm
> using the same driver in both machines -
> /usr/share/pgsql/jdbc7.2dev-1.2.jar from Mandrake 9.0), here is its output:
>
>
> ==================================
> LOCAL MACHINE:
> Database: PostgreSQL
> Version: 7.2.2
>
>
> schemas:
>
>
> catalogs:
> template1
> template0
> sedb
>
> Fields for table: 'test'
> ID TYPE TYPNAME NAME LEN NULLABLE
> 1 4 int4 4 NO
> 2 1 bpchar 20 YES
>
> ===================================
> REMOTE MACHINE IN THE SAME NETWORK:
> Database: PostgreSQL
> Version: 6.5.2
>
>
> schemas:
>
>
>
> catalogs:
>
>
> Fields for table: 'test'
> ID TYPE TYPNAME NAME LEN NULLABLE
> ERROR: No such attribute or function 'oid'
>
>
> java.sql.SQLException: ERROR: No such attribute or function 'oid'
>
> org.postgresql.Connection.ExecSQL(Connection.java at :393)
> org.postgresql.jdbc2.DatabaseMetaData.getColumns( at DatabaseMetaData.jav
> a:1880)
> at DbTester.(DbTester.java:41)
> at DbTester.main(DbTester.java:115)
>
> ================================
> LAST LINES OF '/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf':
> local all ident sameuser
> host all 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0 trust
>
> 191.168.1.2 is the client machine, running the same version of JDK (1.4.0).
>
> Here is the test program that illustrates this behaviour:
>
> import java.util.*;
> import java.text.*;
> import java.io.*;
>
> import java.sql.*;
>
> ///////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////////
> public class DbTester
> {
> Connection connection = null;
> DatabaseMetaData dbmd = null;
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////// ////////////
> public DbTester()
> throws SQLException, ClassNotFoundException,
> FileNotFoundException, IOException
> {
> Class.forName( "org.postgresql.Driver" );
> Connection connection =
> DriverManager.getConnection(
> "jdbc:postgresql://devo/sedb", "carlos", "" );
> dbmd = connection.getMetaData();
> String databaseProductName = dbmd.getDatabaseProductName();
> String databaseProductVersion = dbmd.getDatabaseProductVersion();
>
> System.out.println(
> "Database: " databaseProductName
> "nVersion: " databaseProductVersion );
>
> printSchemas();
> printCatalogs();
> System.out.println(
> "nFields for table: 'test'"
> "nIDtTYPEtTYPNAMEtNAMEtLENtNULLABLE" );
> ResultSet rs = dbmd.getColumns( "%", "%", "test", "%" );
> while( rs.next() )
> printField( rs );
> rs.close();
> }
>
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////// ////////////
> public void printField( ResultSet rs )
> throws SQLException
> {
> System.out.println(
> rs.getInt( 17 ) "t" rs.getInt( 5 ) "t"
> rs.getString( 6 ) "t" rs.getInt( 7 ) "t"
> rs.getString( 18 ) );
> }
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////// ////////////
> public void printSchemas()
> throws SQLException
> {
> System.out.println( "nn schemas:" );
> ResultSet rs = dbmd.getSchemas();
> while ( rs.next() )
> System.out.println( rs.getString( 1 ) );
> rs.close();
> }
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////// ////////////
> public void printCatalogs()
> throws SQLException
> {
> System.out.println( "nn catalogs:" );
> ResultSet rs = dbmd.getCatalogs();
> while ( rs.next() )
> System.out.println( rs.getString( 1 ) );
> rs.close();
> }
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////// ////////////
> public static void main( String[] args )
> {
> try
> {
> new DbTester();
> }
> catch( Exception e )
> {
> System.out.println( e.getMessage() );
> e.printStackTrace();
> }
> }
>
> }
>
> best Regards,
>
> Carlos Correia
>
>
>
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