Re: problem with PSQLException/PSQLState

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Jason Briggs wrote:

> Just discovered a possible issue with the SQLException thrown by the 7.4
> beta3 jdbc driver.
>
> PSQLException used to contain only a message, but now also has a ref to
> org.postgresql.util.PSQLState.  PSQLState isn't serializable and because
> a SQLException is supposed to be serializable, this causes a problem in
> situations where you might want to propogate your exceptions across the
> wire (i.e. app server to client).
>
> The problem is fixed if you change PSQLState to implement Serializable,
> as follows:

Here's a patch to add the change indicated and more importantly a test
case so this won't happen again.

Kris Jurka