From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Jeff Duffy <jduffy@greatbridge.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Error in Programmer's Guide: JDBC
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:51:30 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200101230451.XAA07298@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101222343240.13711-100000@cairhien.alanne.com>
You should see the current development docs have this fixed. Sorry we
didn't go back and fix 7.0 docs.
> Greetings,
>
> In the release version of the Programmer's Guide, the chapter on JDBC
> (I used the one at
> http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/programmer/jdbc6424.htm
> )
> has an example of using the class loader to load the Postgres JDBC
> driver that uses the incorrect driver class name:
>
> Class.forName("postgresql.Driver");
>
> This same error is repeated in the example for loading the driver using
> the command line switch:
>
> % java -Djdbc.drivers=postgresql.Driver example.ImageViewer
>
> The correct driver class (at least in the latest release with the filename
> jdbc7.0-1.2.jar, obtained from Peter Mount's site at
> http://www.retep.org.uk/postgres/download.html) should be
> org.postgresql.Driver, thus changing the docs to read
>
> Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
>
> and
>
> % java -Djdbc.drivers=org.postgresql.Driver example.ImageViewer
>
> Following the docs will cause the code to throw an exception with the
> message "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: postgresql.Driver".
>
> In the future, should we submit SGML diffs?
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
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