Having HUGE troubles connecting to a pgDatabase. I have been struggling with this for
3 days now...
I Have scoured the docs, and this jdbc list archive without success. I would Love to
find a mentor who might spend a bit of time getting me past this obstacle. Yes, I am
new to java. :(
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The Details,
1) I have pgSQL running on RedHat7.1 and have connected to it with pgAccess and
created a few tables and populated them with some data.
2) I have installed pgAdmin on a NT machine on the network and accessed the data on
the Linux machine described above.
3) I am developing a simple program on the NT machine and I have copied some example
code from a JavaTutorial and compiled and made it work to access a MSAccess db locally
on the on the NT machine running JDK1.3
4.) I have read the Docs written by Peter Mount and have modified the code in what
seem reasoable ways to access the pgDatabase ...all to no avail.
4a) I have renamed jdb7.0-1.1.jar to postgresql.jar and then copied that .jar file
into as many places as seems reasonable and not so reasonable(yes I have copies all
over the place at present), yet still get this error at run time.
H:\JavaLessons\ch18\fig18_24>java TableDisplayPG1
Failed to load JDBC/ODBC driver.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.postgresql.Driver
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
and about 10 more lines of errors...
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Is there someone with a big heart and brain who would spend some time helping me get
this working... I suspect once I do I'll be sailing(yeah right). Maybe set up and
instant message chat or something to work it through... The source code is below.
Thanks to whom ever has some time.
Gonzo feeling like a bozo!
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Source code
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// This works
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// The URL specifying the Books database to which
// this program connects using JDBC to connect to a
// Microsoft ODBC database.
String url = "jdbc:odbc:Books";
String username = "anonymous";
String password = "guest";
*************
// This DOES NOT work!!
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// The URL specifying the test database to which
// this program connects using JDBC to connect to a
// postgres database on the network somewhere.
String url = "jdbc://10.0.0.15:5432/test";
String username = "postgres";
String password = "";
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// This works
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// Load the driver to allow connection to the database
try {
Class.forName( "sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver" );
connection = DriverManager.getConnection(
url, username, password );
}
catch ( ClassNotFoundException cnfex ) {
System.err.println(
"Failed to load JDBC/ODBC driver." );
cnfex.printStackTrace();
System.exit( 1 ); // terminate program
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// This DOES NOT work!
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// Load the driver to allow connection to the database
try {
Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
connection = DriverManager.getConnection(
url, username, password );
}
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