DS-1435 Oracle bug hunt - partial stack trace of NPE

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load_registries:
     [java] 2012-12-20 16:15:21,901 INFO  org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager @ Loading system provided config property (-Ddspace.configuration): config/dspace.cfg
     [java] 2012-12-20 16:15:21,907 INFO  org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager @ Using default log4j provided log configuration,if unintended, check your dspace.cfg for (log.init.config)
     [java] Error: 
     [java]  - null
     [java] 2012-12-20 16:15:22,993 FATAL org.dspace.administer.RegistryLoader @ anonymous::error_loading_registries:
     [java] java.lang.NullPointerException
     [java]   at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.ColumnInfo.canonicalize(ColumnInfo.java:154)      #### return column.toLowerCase();   #### OK, for this to NPE, column needs to be null... why would column be null?
     [java] 	at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.TableRow.canonicalizeAndCheck(TableRow.java:579)  ####  String canonicalized = ColumnInfo.canonicalize(column);
     [java] 	at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.TableRow.setColumn(TableRow.java:437)             ##### String canonicalized = canonicalizeAndCheck(column);
     [java] 	at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.doInsertGeneric(DatabaseManager.java:1835) #### row.setColumn(getPrimaryKeyColumn(table), newID); ### OK, column is found *here* so this is where it is set to null
     [java] 	at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.insert(DatabaseManager.java:679)   #### newID = doInsertGeneric(context, row);
     [java] 	at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.create(DatabaseManager.java:451)   #### TableRow row = new TableRow(canonicalize(table), getColumnNames(table)); insert(context, row);
     [java] 	at org.dspace.content.BitstreamFormat.create(BitstreamFormat.java:403)         #### DatabaseManager.create(context, "bitstreamformatregistry");  ### adds a row to the specified table
     [java] 	at org.dspace.administer.RegistryLoader.loadFormat(RegistryLoader.java:172)    
     [java] 	at org.dspace.administer.RegistryLoader.loadBitstreamFormats(RegistryLoader.java:138)
     [java] 	at org.dspace.administer.RegistryLoader.main(RegistryLoader.java:75)