Re: Bug #814

Hi Barry,
Thank you for your reply.
Can you tell me how to convert my database?

I have tried using initdb with encoding UNICODE, and changing the CREATEDB
line in my dump from SQL_ASCII to UNICODE, but this doesn't work.

Any information welcome as I've searched the net, without finding anything
that helps.

Thanks,
Malcolm Warren


On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:26:36 -0700, Barry Lind <blind@xythos.com> wrote:

> Malcolm,
>
> This has been "fixed" in the latest builds of the 7.3 driver.  Download
> from jdbc.postgresql.org.
>
> The "fix" was to just report a better error message in this case.  If you
> are storing non-ascii data, you are going to need your database to be
> running with an encoding that can store that data.  Thus in your
> situation as you are reporting below you would need to recreate your
> database in latinX or unicode.
>
> thanks,
> --Barry
>
> Malcolm Warren wrote:
>> I note that this bug was opened in December 2002.
>>
>> To recap, you get an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException at
>> org.postgresql.core.Encoding.decodeUTF8 in Encoding.java line 253
>> whenever it encounters a character from the extended keyboard.
>>
>> I have Postgres 7.3.2 with SQL_ASCII (default?) encoding and no locale.
>> But a lot of the text in our database is in Italian.
>> So programmes crash as soon as they meet any italian accented character
>> when using the new JDBC jars.
>> I come across the same bug using both the JDBC2 and JDBC3 jars.
>>
>> Anyone know of plans to deal with this bug? Any information would be
>> gratefully received.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Malcolm Warren
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