ResultSet Column Name Problem in pgjdbc2.jar?

I've searched the archives for help on this, but come up empty. My
apologies if this problem has already been addressed.

In a nutshell, my problem is this: A resultset returned from a query
containing table & column names (as opposed to column names alone)
contains only the column names (rather than table & column names).

Here's a simplified version of the code that's giving me a problem:

...

ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(
    "select users.id, users.class, items.class " +
    "from users " +
    "left join items on (users.id = items.id)");

while (rs.next()) {
    System.out.println(
    rs.getInt("users.user_id") + " | " +
    rs.getInt("users.class") + " | " +
    rs.getInt("items.class"));
}

...

You get the picture. I'm joining on the 'id' column of tables 'users'
and 'items' in order to return the values in their respective 'class'
fields.

This works like a dream in MySQL, both via the admin query tool, as well
as my java code. It works with the pgAdmin query tool, but my java code
gives the following error:

"The column name transactions.transaction_id not found.
     at org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.findColumn(ResultSet.java:821)
     at org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.getInt(ResultSet.java:574)"

Here's why. The query passes through to the database just fine, the
ResultSet that's returned, however, only has the column names, without
the table prefixes, in its Fields collection.

In other words, taking a look at the Fields collection in the debugger
shows 3 fields: Fields(0) = "user_id", Fields(1) = "class", Fields(2) =
"class".

Running against the MySQL JDBC driver gives the proper result, including
the table prefixes: Fields(0) = "users.user_id", Fields(1) =
"users.class", Fields(2) = "items.class".

So, in order to use the PostgreSQL driver, you gotta reference all
columns in a ResultSet by column number, not name. This is not a huge
problem, of course, but I thought I should make you aware of it.

Thanks for your attention.

Mike Abraham