[DBCP] BasicDataSource, testOnBorrow and PostgreSQL

[ben short]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the BasicDataSource to pool PostgreSQL connections.
I'm also using Spring and Hibernate.

My BasicDataSource configuration is as follows....

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName" value="org.postgresql.Driver"/>
        <property name="url"
value="jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1/tyrellcheck?user=sysadmin&amp;password=password"/>
        <property name="validationQuery" value="SELECT 1"/>
        <property name="initialSize" value="5"/>
        <property name="maxActive" value="25"/>
        <property name="minIdle" value="5"/>
        <property name="maxIdle" value="5"/>
        <property name="defaultAutoCommit" value="false"/>
        <property name="testOnBorrow" value="true"/>
    </bean>

The problem I have is that springs transaction manager is trying to
set the transaction isolation based on transactional annotations in my
code. But I get the following exception thrown.

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Cannot change transaction isolation
level in the middle of a transaction

I have debugged the code and see that when the validateConnection
method gets called on the PoolableConnectionFactory it executes the
validation query which starts a transaction, so later on when the
springs transaction manager tried to set the transaction isolation the
exception is thrown.

While debugging I called commit on the connection after the validation
query had been executed and all worked OK.

I believe this to be a bug, should I log it?

Regards

Ben Short
blog.benshort.co.uk

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