Re: Result set not positioned properly, perhaps you need to - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

Manuel Sugawara wrote:
> I have a system which have been up for years now and recently when
> switched to pg74.215.jdbc3.jar it started to fail saying:
>
> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Result set not positioned properly, perhaps you need to call next().
>         at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1ResultSet.checkResultSet(AbstractJdbc1ResultSet.java:823)
>         at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1ResultSet.getString(AbstractJdbc1ResultSet.java:200)
>         at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1ResultSet.getString(AbstractJdbc1ResultSet.java:480)
>         at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingResultSet.getString(DelegatingResultSet.java:155)
>         ....
>
> The funny thing is that switching back to pg74.214.jdbc3.jar solves
> the problem. Is this a know bug?.

Can you show us the application code that causes this? It may be an
application bug that was hidden by the old driver's behaviour. Newer
drivers tend to be more aggressive about checking resultset positioning,
enforcing spec requirements, etc.

-O