I am actually using Jasper reports to access the view. I created the data source and specified the following:
Driver: org.postgresql.Driver
URL: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres
UID and PW
I made sure to update to postgresql-9.1-902.jdbc4.jar (PG version is 9.1.2)
Then I defined a query simply as:
select * from encounter;
I also tried the same query using a SquirrelSQL client (just to eliminate a problem in Jasper) and got the same result.
The column filled by the function is empty.
If I select * from encounter directly in postgres, the column is filled.
My apologies if I haven't included the implementation details that you need.
Thanks!