> PostgreSQL version: 7.3.4
>
> Description: org.apache.commons.dbcp.DbcpException: The connection
> attempt failed because failed getting backend
>
> We are trying to install DSPACE with POSTGRES. When we run the ant
> fresh_install command we get the following error. What could be causing a
> org.apache.commons.dbcp.DbcpException: The connection attempt failed because
> failed getting backend encoding?
Have you been able to establish a JDBC connection at all or is this error
only with dspace?
Could you enable logging on the server and see if that comes up with
anything interesting? (Enable log_statement in postgresql.conf and
restart the server making sure the output is going somewhere other than
/dev/null)
What do you get from the results of the following queries when run in
psql?
SELECT version();
SELECT pg_encoding_to_char(1);
SELECT getdatabaseencoding();
Kris Jurka
