JDBC access is broken in 7.3 beta

(I posted this on the bugs and jdbc newsgroups last week
but have seen no response. Imho, this really needs to
be fixed since the bug makes it impossible to use the
driver in a multithreaded environment so I'm reposting
to hackers and patches.)

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Mats Lofkvist
mal@algonet.se

The optimization added in
src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/core/Encoding.java
version 1.7 breaks JDBC since it is not thread safe.

The new method decodeUTF8() uses a static (i.e. class member)
but is synchronized on the instance so it won't work with multiple
instances used in parallel by multiple threads.
(Quick and dirty patch below.)

(The method also isn't using the 'length' parameter correctly,
but since offset always seems to be zero, this bug doesn't show up.)

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Mats Lofkvist
mal@algonet.se

*** org/postgresql/core/Encoding.java~  Sun Oct 20 04:55:50 2002
--- org/postgresql/core/Encoding.java   Fri Nov  8 16:13:20 2002
***************
*** 233,239 ****
*/
private static final int pow2_6 = 64;           // 26
private static final int pow2_12 = 4096;        // 212
!       private static char[] cdata = new char[50];

private synchronized String decodeUTF8(byte data[], int offset, int length) {
char[] l_cdata = cdata;
--- 233,239 ----
*/
private static final int pow2_6 = 64;           // 26
private static final int pow2_12 = 4096;        // 212
!       private char[] cdata = new char[50];

private synchronized String decodeUTF8(byte data[], int offset, int length) {
char[] l_cdata = cdata;

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