Re: forName finds Driver but getConnection doesn't (AGAIN)

Can you try specifying the host in the URL and see if that fixes this
problem?

I.E. change to jdbc:postgresql://localhost/postgres


Dave
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 14:49, Deepak Vasudevan K P wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I'm in the same situation where Dennis King was on 19 Nov 2002.
>   I'm trying to connect to pgsql using JDBC (on a RHL 8.0) and for me,
> as it was with Dennis, forName registers the Driver, but getConnection
> throws the exception "Driver not found".
>   I use JDK 1.3.1,
>   tried postgresql JDBC driver: "pg72jdbc2.jar" from
> http://jdbc.postgresql.org/
>   running java as : $>java -cp ./pg72jdbc2.jar <myClassFile>
>   The source for myClassFile has the following specs
>     Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
>     ...
>     Driver.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql:postgres","postgres"); //
> throws the "Driver Not Found" exception.
>    <Here  'postgres' is the database name  and 'postgres' is a user>
>
>   BTW I tried the same Driver in Windows (2000 prof, jdk1.4.1, forte
> for Java) and there getConnection worked, but the connection was
> refused by the RHL DB host (I've edited the pg_hba.conf file). That
> was just a try, I'd stick to RHL.
>
>   Dennis any luck with your tries? Did you compile one of those
> sources?
>
>   If anyone can help I would be grateful.
> Deepak.
>
>
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