Re: JDBC bug?

[Lutischán Ferenc <lutischanf(at)gmail(dot)com>]

Dear Kris,

Thanks for suggestion, it's working!

Regards,
   Ferenc

Kris Jurka wrotte:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Lutischán Ferenc wrote:
>
> > I found the following bug:
> > Connect to database with password that contains special chars (E.g.: 
> > Nyárfa10)  DriverManager.getConnection( dbUrl,   user,  pwd); will 
> > fail with:
> > org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: password authentication 
> > failed for user "xy"
> >
> > jdbc driver: 8-3-603 with 8.3.6 postgresql
> > From pgadmin connection is good with 'Nyárfa10' password.
>
> A change to fix this has been made to the 8.4 driver series, so you 
> will need to try the 8.4dev release.  It sends the password in UTF-8, 
> which means you must set the password when connected to a UTF-8 
> database so it gets stored that way it the database.
>
> Kris Jurka