I heard it was fixed too but looking around, I found nothing. I added
it tonight to the types section.
> Thomas,
>
> You are correct about the poor documentation for bytea. I hear this is
> fixed in 7.2 docs, but haven't verified. I learned about it myself by
> looking at the internal pg_* tables and seeing how they used it.
>
> I'm glad to hear that you have a workaround for your original issue.
>
> thanks,
> --Barry
>
> Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> > Hi Barry,
> >
> > I looked in the postgresql documentation and couldn't find any mention
> > of a "bytea" type. Well actually, I found ..
> >
> > $ grep -i bytea *
> > bki-commands.html:>bytea</TT
> > catalog-pg-proc.html:>bytea</TT
> > xfunc-c.html:>bytea</TD
> > xfunc-c.html:>(bytea *)</TD
> >
> > but no real info on what it is, or no mention of it in the main types page.
> > Anyway, I think I'm fine for now, stipping the null chars from my data.
> >
> > Tom.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:17:19PM -0700, Barry Lind wrote:
> >
> >>Thomas,
> >>
> >>The text datatypes in postgres (i.e. char, varchar, text) do not support
> >>storing null characters. If your data contains nulls then you need to
> >>use the binary datatype bytea. Unfortunately the JDBC drivers do not
> >>currently support the bytea datatype.
> >>
> >>thanks,
> >>--Barry
> >>
> >>Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> >>
> >>>I found problem. My string has a null character in the middle of it. I
> >>>noticed from the Connection.java code that the null character idicates
> >>>end of query so I guess that is what is happening. I'll strip out my
> >>>null strings in the mean time as they are not needed before sending them
> >>>to the driver but I'm wondering if the preparedStatement.setString()
> >>>shouldn't escape nulls or something. It already escapes single quotes and
> >>>backslashes. What do people think?
> >>>
> >>>Cheers,
> >>>
> >>>Tom.
> >>>
> >>>On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:53:31AM +0900, Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Thanks Barry,
> >>>>
> >>>>I turned on debugging in postgresql. I found that the query is being truncated
> >>>>and is not fully making it to the backend, therefore I'm getting the
> >>>>Unterminated string error. I'll have a look into why and report back if
> >>>>I find anything.
> >>>>
> >>>>Cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>>Tom.
> >>>>
> >>>>On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:56:50PM -0700, Barry Lind wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Thomas,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>If you turn on debug messages on the server to print out the SQL
> >>>>>statements it receives you should be able to get the exact string that
> >>>>>the server is receiving from the client and failing on. That might help
> >>>>>you find the problem.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>thanks,
> >>>>>--Barry
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Hi all,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I'm currently chasing down a bug. Wonder if anyone can throw some light
> >>>>>>on it. I get the following exception.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>An I/O error has occured while flushing the output - Exception:
>java.io.IOException: Connection reset by peer
> >>>>>>Stack Trace:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>java.io.IOException: Connection reset by peer
> >>>>>> at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(Native Method)
> >>>>>> at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:83)
> >>>>>> at
>java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:72)
> >>>>>> at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:130)
> >>>>>> at org.postgresql.PG_Stream.flush(PG_Stream.java:414)
> >>>>>> at org.postgresql.Connection.ExecSQL(Connection.java:479)
> >>>>>> at org.postgresql.jdbc2.Statement.execute(Statement.java:294)
> >>>>>> at org.postgresql.jdbc2.Statement.executeUpdate(Statement.java:78)
> >>>>>> at
>org.postgresql.jdbc2.PreparedStatement.executeUpdate(PreparedStatement.java:122)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>And in the postgresql.log file I get...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>ERROR: Unterminated quoted string
> >>>>>>FATAL 1: Socket command type
> >>>>>>unknown
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>But I'm pretty sure that my strings are quoted properly. That is to say that
> >>>>>>there are about 90 escaped single quotes in a string I'm inserting also though.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Anyone seen this before? I'm currently using a version of the driver
> >>>>>>that I compiled from cvs on the 18th of Jun. Was anything patched since
> >>>>>>that might effect this?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Anyway, I've been digging around for quite a while now so I thought I'd
> >>>>>>shoot the list a mail before going to bed.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Tom.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>>Thomas O'Dowd. - Nooping - http://nooper.com
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