OID, compatible=7.1 and getBinaryStream() in 7.4 driver + 7.4 database - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

I have noticed that I can use only latest 7.4 driver with 7.4 database. I tried both driver from jdbc.postgresql.org
(7.4beta3) and from CVS (:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot) and discovered that with
compatible=7.1flag invoking rs.getBinaryStream() or rs.getBytes() on an OID column blocks forever (somewhere in
java.net.SocketInputStreamso I guess it's a server that is not responding). According to 7.4 documentation
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/jdbc-binary-data.html,this should work. getBLOB() works great, but JBoss
3.2server which I am using is only capable of dealing with large objects via getBinaryStream()/setBinaryStream(). 

  Combination "OID, compatible=7.1 and getBinaryStream()" worked well in PostgreSQL 7.2 with latest 7.3 driver.

  What options do I have? I could migrate to bytea although I don't liked the performance of it. But before I do that I
wantto make sure that this issue is a bug that is about to be fixed or something different.  
  Thanks.