On Sat, 12 May 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > Now, my thought on this is that it *sounds* like the JDBC is
> > hitting some sort of control character is the stream that tells it to stop
> > sending the image ... is this possible? Some binary character that needs
> > to somehow be trapped?
>
> Embedded nulls would be the likely cause of trouble.
>
> If you're seeing OIDs in the database then the actual storage is
> presumably in large objects. lo_read and friends are null-safe as far
> as I know; probably the problem is somewhere inside the JDBC driver.
that's kinda what I'm figuring too ... the question is where, and is there
a suitable work around ;(