Re: setting up jndi jdbc tomcat and postgres

2003-02-21 Thread awc
Hi Chris,

where does this validationQuery goes?? on every connect??

Thanks

.anil

Chris Catton wrote:

 The tomcat documentation on jndi and datasources
 http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jndi-datasource-examples
 -howto.html asks for  feedback on setup with postgres.  We finally got
 it working  using java 1.4, tomcat 4.1.18 on linux, postgres 7.2.1 on
 linux with pg73jdbc2ee.jar.  The instructions miss one crucial thing -
 on our system we were getting a datasource created, but on trying to get
 a connection from the datasource the system seemed to hang.  A look at
 the postgres log showed repeated attempts to connect.  Problem
 eventually solved by putting 'select 1;' in the validationQuery

 Seems the postgres driver wants the database to confirm the connection
 is valid before handing it  back ..

 Hope this saves someone else some headscratching - pls stick it in the
 docs!

 C



 Chris Catton
 BioImage Database Development Manager
 Department of Zoology
 University of Oxford
 OX1 3PS

 Tel: +44 (0) 1865 281993
 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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setting up jndi jdbc tomcat and postgres

2003-02-20 Thread Chris Catton
The tomcat documentation on jndi and datasources
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jndi-datasource-examples
-howto.html asks for  feedback on setup with postgres.  We finally got
it working  using java 1.4, tomcat 4.1.18 on linux, postgres 7.2.1 on
linux with pg73jdbc2ee.jar.  The instructions miss one crucial thing -
on our system we were getting a datasource created, but on trying to get
a connection from the datasource the system seemed to hang.  A look at
the postgres log showed repeated attempts to connect.  Problem
eventually solved by putting 'select 1;' in the validationQuery 
 
Seems the postgres driver wants the database to confirm the connection
is valid before handing it  back ..
 
Hope this saves someone else some headscratching - pls stick it in the
docs!
 
C
 
 
 
Chris Catton
BioImage Database Development Manager
Department of Zoology
University of Oxford
OX1 3PS
 
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 281993
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web site: www.bioimage.org