Hi,
Recently we discovered a defect in the jdbc driver of PostgreSQL. It is detected in version 8.1dev-401 and also found in all later versions. The problem is that we had a faulty SQL statement in our code that was partly executed by the jdbc-driver without any warning or error log.
The statement is
SELECT * FROM POSTransaction WHERE DatTransEnd = (SELECT MAX(DatTransEnd) FROM POSTransaction WHERE IdtCheckout = 9 AND FlgTraining = ?) AND IdtCheckout = 9 AND FlgTraining = ?) ORDER BY HouTransEnd DESC
As you can see this statement contains 1 closing bracket ('(') too much. However while debugging the driver I saw that the problem is caused in method AbstractJdbc2Statement.parseSql(String, int, StringBuffer, boolean) throws SQLException. In that method a counter is activated which holds the number of open brackets. Each time it encounters a ( it adds one and each time it encounters a ) it substracts one. When the counter's value is less than zero, the parsings stops. In our case, this resulted that our sql statement was shortened to
SELECT * FROM POSTransaction WHERE DatTransEnd = (SELECT MAX(DatTransEnd) FROM POSTransaction WHERE IdtCheckout = 9 AND FlgTraining = ?) AND IdtCheckout = 9 AND FlgTraining = ?
When executing the same query in pgAdmin III Query, I got a syntax error : ERROR: syntax error at or near ")" at character 136.
I would expected to have the same syntax error using the prepared statement.
Can anyone confirm this problem and point me to a possible fix?
All the best,
Kris Senden
