Bug with blobs?

Hi,

I was getting an exception thrown when using Hibernate to read blobs but
I've pared it down to something very simple - hopefully it's just
something silly.
Here's the snippet of code :-


            String query = "select imageblob from tempimages where id=1";

                Connection con;
                PreparedStatement s;
                ResultSet rs;

                try {
                    Class.forName(driver);
                    con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username,
password);
                    s = con.prepareStatement(query);
                    rs = s.executeQuery();
                    rs.next();
                    java.sql.Blob blob = rs.getBlob("imageblob");

It throws a
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Bad value for type int :
\377\330\377\340\000 .... <blob data removed>
    at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.toInt(AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java:2528)
    at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.getInt(AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java:2003)
    at org.postgresql.jdbc3.Jdbc3ResultSet.getBlob(Jdbc3ResultSet.java:55)
    at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.getBlob(AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java:323)
    at PgTest.run(PgTest.java:46)
    at PgTest.main(PgTest.java:63)

This is with postgresql 8.0.3 and version 312 of the driver (on Linux)

Help, help! - What am I doing wrong!?

Thanks for any help,

Rob