Re: Problem with loginTimeout

Nicolas Vervelle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to this list, so hello everyone.
>
> I am having troubles with getConnection() and the loginTimeout property.
>
> I am working with a 7.4.2 server and I was also using the 7.4 jdbc
> driver (build 215). Everything is under Red Hat RHEL 3, JDK 1.4.2.
> My application is running under JBoss 3.2.6.
>
> With this version, there was no support for timeout when using
> getConnection(), so sometimes it takes 3 minutes for getConnection() to
> send an exception. I have to connect to 35 databases one after an other
> so the delay is really too important (3 * 35 minutes = 1h45).
> Looking at the mailing list archives, I saw posts concerning this
> problem and the solution of calling getConnection() in a separate Thread
> and dealing with the timeout (6 seconds) in the mail thread.
> I implemented this fix, but stumbled into an other problem: when a first
> getConnection() is still running, following getConnection() won't return
> a connection until the first one is finished. This implies that once a
> getConnection() timedout (the 6 seconds timeout), every other attempt to
> use getConnection() will also time out (6 seconds) until the first
> getConnection() will definitely fail (3 minutes).
> I don't see how I can find a solution for this problem, anyone can help
> me ?
>
> I tried updating to the latest JDBC driver (8.2 build 504), and the
> problem seems to be fixed.
> But then I am getting errors with my EJB Entities when trying to create
> new instances :
> Could not create entity
> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: column "tab_alarme_emis_pcc"
> is of type boolean but expression is of type character
> The corresponding field is defined as :
> - in the EJB entity: with
> @ejb.persistence column-name="TAB_ALARME_EMIS_PCC"
> public abstract Boolean getEmisPcc();
> - in the database: with tab_alarme_emis_pcc boolean

It seems there's a problem in your EJB container or mapping etc. causing
it to send booleans as CHARs instead.

> What is the problem ? Please help.
> Is there a global setting to have the pgdriver behaving as it was in 7.4 ?

Try protocolVersion=2, see
http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/82/connect.html#connection-parameters

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