Database illegalStateException when trying to upload rules via Guvnor UI or REST API in BRMS 5.3

Issue

• We've configured a database as the repository persistence system by overriding default local file system.
• Uploading rules via Guvnor UI or REST API throws following error in the logs

2012-12-07 12:56:52,230 ERROR [org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.util.BundleWriter] (http-0.0.0.0-8080-1) Error while storing blob. id=7cd29ef3-4676-4ce
9-8817-3434b5802f92/{http://www.jboss.org/drools-repository/1.0}binaryContent idx=0 size=6656
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to insert index for string: binaryContent
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.pool.NGKDbNameIndex.insertString(NGKDbNameIndex.java:66)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.pool.DbNameIndex.stringToIndex(DbNameIndex.java:95)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.pool.BundleDbPersistenceManager$DbBlobStore.createId(BundleDbPersistenceManager.java:1334)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.util.BundleWriter.writeState(BundleWriter.java:239)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.util.BundleWriter.writeBundle(BundleWriter.java:132)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.util.BundleBinding.writeBundle(BundleBinding.java:164)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.pool.BundleDbPersistenceManager.storeBundle(BundleDbPersistenceManager.java:1078)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.bundle.AbstractBundlePersistenceManager.putBundle(AbstractBundlePersistenceManager.java:684)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.bundle.AbstractBundlePersistenceManager.storeInternal(AbstractBundlePersistenceManager.java:626)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.bundle.AbstractBundlePersistenceManager.store(AbstractBundlePersistenceManager.java:503)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.pool.BundleDbPersistenceManager.store(BundleDbPersistenceManager.java:479)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.SharedItemStateManager$Update.end(SharedItemStateManager.java:757)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.SharedItemStateManager.update(SharedItemStateManager.java:1488)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.LocalItemStateManager.update(LocalItemStateManager.java:351)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.XAItemStateManager.update(XAItemStateManager.java:354)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.LocalItemStateManager.update(LocalItemStateManager.java:326)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.state.SessionItemStateManager.update(SessionItemStateManager.java:289)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemSaveOperation.perform(ItemSaveOperation.java:258)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.session.SessionState.perform(SessionState.java:200)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemImpl.perform(ItemImpl.java:91)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemImpl.save(ItemImpl.java:329)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.session.SessionSaveOperation.perform(SessionSaveOperation.java:42)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.session.SessionState.perform(SessionState.java:200)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.SessionImpl.perform(SessionImpl.java:355)
        at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.SessionImpl.save(SessionImpl.java:758)
        at org.drools.repository.VersionableItem.checkin(VersionableItem.java:579)
        at org.drools.guvnor.server.jaxrs.PackageResource.createAssetFromBinary(PackageResource.java:658)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)