Thread: "Unable to fathom update count" - what does it mean?

Hi all,

I have a server which has started giving a weird error during a database
INSERT:

  Unable to fathom update count INSERT 3523561677 1

I have an identical setup on a staging server that does not show this
problem - however before I can try do something about it I need to
understand just what this error message is trying to tell me.

I have trawled documentation and mailing lists, however it seems there
is no description anywhere of the error messages within the Postgrsql
JDBC driver. Does this info exist anywhere?

Can anyone explain to me what this error is trying to tell me?

Regards,
Graham
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Graham,

This is a bug in the driver.  oids are unsigned ints, but the java code
is assuming the value is a signed int.  Thus the value is larger than
the java int can handle.  I will work on a fix over the weekend.

thanks,
--Barry


Graham Leggett wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a server which has started giving a weird error during a database
> INSERT:
>
>   Unable to fathom update count INSERT 3523561677 1
>
> I have an identical setup on a staging server that does not show this
> problem - however before I can try do something about it I need to
> understand just what this error message is trying to tell me.
>
> I have trawled documentation and mailing lists, however it seems there
> is no description anywhere of the error messages within the Postgrsql
> JDBC driver. Does this info exist anywhere?
>
> Can anyone explain to me what this error is trying to tell me?
>
> Regards,
> Graham
>