Re: [JDBC] Something unusual has occured to cause the driver to fail. NullPointerException

2001-09-09 Thread Larry Rogers
I tried your URL format with the same results. Thanks anyway! Larry Rogers On Sunday 09 September 2001 20:15, Dave Weis wrote: Your connection url looks funny, it should probably be more like jdbc:postgresql://localhost/testdb dave ---(end of

Re: [JDBC] Something unusual has occured to cause the driver to fail. NullPointerException

2001-09-09 Thread Barry Lind
Larry, Shouldn't your connection URL be: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/testdb instead of jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432?database=testdb thanks, --Barry Larry Rogers wrote: Hi all, I'm having trouble opening a database connection to a test database on a fresh PostGreSQL 7.1.3