Hi! I'm working in a java application that will used a database, but I'm
trying to support a couple of different DBMS (postgres, oracle, ...). My
question is: Is there a way to be sure that the database that the application
is using in a specific moment is really a postgres database?
Thanks!
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:13:12 +0100, you wrote:
>Is there a way to be sure that the database that the application
>is using in a specific moment is really a postgres database?
DatabaseMetaData.getDatabaseProductName() returns "PostgreSQL".
I can't guarantee that other products won't do the same
Please have mercy on this poor beginner!
I am totally new to both postgresql and jdbc, so I'm probably committing
some very basic error, but I am unable to make a connection to my
database via jdbc. I am using postgresql 7.1.2 which seems to be
running OK (under Suse Linux 7.1); at least I can
Peter,
I believe that the url format is "jdbc.postgresql:///". This
could be the problem.
Whitney
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From: Peter Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [JDBC] Unable to connect to database
Please have merc
Peter,
Do you have any other problems running java on this machine. The only
reason you should ever get a segmentation fault with java is if the jvm
is buggy.
What jvm are you using. I know there are issues running sun's jvm on
newer distributions.
Dave
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:00:40AM -0700, Whitney Hunter wrote:
> I believe that the url format is "jdbc.postgresql:///". This
> could be the problem.
Nope, that isn't the problem. The url format is correct. (assuming of
course that the database that Peter is connecting to is running on his
comp
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:11:57 -0400, you wrote:
>Try a newer JDBC driver (from CVS).
Standard support answer #1 :-)
The driver is AFAIK 100% pure Java. I don't think there is a fix
for a JVM segmentation fault in the driver, do you?
>the problem could be your JVM
That's better advice :-)
Seri
Applied. Thanks.
> Attached is the patch requested by Tom Lane (see below). It
> includes two changes in the JDBC driver:
>
> 1) When connected to a backend >= 7.2: use obj_description() and
> col_description() instead of direct access to pg_description.
>
> 2) In DatabaseMetaData.getTables()
