java.sql.SQLException: Numeric Overflow while using IN operator

Question

I implemented a Java application which queries a database based on given set of ids using the query:

select * from STUDENT where ID in (?)

The set of ids will be used to replace ?. However, occasionally, I receive an exception:

Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Numeric Overflow
at oracle.jdbc.driver.SQLStateMapping.newSQLException(SQLStateMapping.java:70)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.newSQLException(DatabaseError.java:133)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:199)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:263)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:271)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:445)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.NumberCommonAccessor.throwOverflow(NumberCommonAccessor.java:4319)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.NumberCommonAccessor.getInt(NumberCommonAccessor.java:187)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleResultSetImpl.getInt(OracleResultSetImpl.java:712)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleResultSet.getInt(OracleResultSet.java:434)

After some testing, I realized that if I divide the list of ids into many sub-lists with smaller size, the exception stops happening. For some reason, jdbc doesn't like putting too many values into IN (?). I wonder if anyone has seen this issue before and has an explanation for it? As this issue never happens on production environment but only on a local one (which has less powerful resources), I suspect it has something to do with server's resources.

Thanks

Update: the source code that I'm using is:

// create a query
private String getQueryString(int numOfParams) {
    StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();
    out.append("select * from STUDENT where ID in (");
    for (int i = 0; i < numOfParams; i++) {
        if (i == numOfParams - 1) {
            out.append("?");
        } else {
            out.append("?, ");
        }
    }
    out.append(")");
}

// set parameters
private void setParams(PreparedStatement ps, Set<String> params) {
    int index = 1;
    for (String param: params) {
        ps.setString(index++, param);
    }
}

public void queryStudent(Connection conn, Set<String> ids) throws Exception {
    String query = this.getQueryString(ids.size());
    PreparedStatement ps = conn.prepareStatement(query);
    this.setParams(ps, ids);
    ps.executeQuery();

    // do some operations with the result
}

Solution

The issue was caused by conflict of ojdbc driver between GlassFish and application. In order to fix it, I need to:

• Update application's pom.xml (as I'm using maven) to use a latest ojdbc which is ojdbc6-11.2.0.3
• Add ojdbc6-11.2.0.3 to GlassFish lib
• If necessary, manually remove the ojdbc jar from deployed applications' lib in glassfish (apparently this is not cleared by undeploy)