On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Andrea Antibo wrote:
>
> On 14-Oct-98 Peter T Mount wrote:
> >
> > Three things here:
> >
> > 1) The Class.forName() line isn't needed if you use the jdbc.drivers
> > property. It doesn't hurt, but not required.
>
>
> if I cut the line from source code or from .hotjava/properties file I have this
> error:
>
> File not found when looking for: postgresql.Driver
It sounds like the properties file isn't actually being used.
> > 3) You may be having problems with the null password. If you are using
> > trust, or ident authentication (set in pg_hba.conf), then you could put
> > anything in here. Otherwise, use "Alter user" to set yourself a password,
> > and put it in here.
>
> Ok, but when I wrote a application like basic.java exemple without password it
> worked fine.
It can depend. In the past, I've found that most failed connections are
caused by null or empty ("") passwords.
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