Per discussion and investigation on the -jdbc list, the server appears to
violate the frontend/backend protocol when binary copy data is sent to the
server. Upon receiving the binary copy end of data marker (a -1 field
count), the server immediately responds with CommandComplete and
ReadyForQuery without waiting for the frontend to issue CopyDone or
CopyFail. This confuses the JDBC driver as it doesn't think the command
sequence should have finished yet.
Attached is a patch to make the server continue to consume protocol data
until instructed to stop by the client in the same way as copying text
data to the server currently works.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/protocol-flow.html#PROTOCOL-COPYhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-copy.html
Kris Jurka
