Doug Fields patch to prevent exception being thrown on zero length arrays

diff --git a/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/Array.java b/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/Array.java
index 14948e5b4b07d51f882c11dea3ca27fc3468b4fd..f68106ee7b6958b429642430202e20bb1343f2dd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/Array.java
+++ b/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/Array.java
@@ -74,7 +74,13 @@ public class Array implements java.sql.Array
                Object retVal = null;
 
                ArrayList array = new ArrayList();
-               if ( rawString != null )
+               
+               /* Check if the String is also not an empty array
+                 * otherwise there will be an exception thrown below
+                 * in the ResultSet.toX with an empty string.
+                 * -- Doug Fields <[email protected]> Feb 20, 2002 */
+                
+               if ( rawString != null && !rawString.equals("{}") )
                {
                        char[] chars = rawString.toCharArray();
                        StringBuffer sbuf = new StringBuffer();