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To: Craig Ringer <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Christopher Barham <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [DOCS] JDBC documentation - issue report
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:57:56 -0400
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Ya, this really is an innocuous issue
Dave Cramer
dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
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On 20 August 2014 00:27, Craig Ringer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/19/2014 01:12 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Forwarding this to pgsql-jdbc mailing list.
> >
> > On 08/18/2014 06:18 AM, Christopher Barham wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Just spotted a possible issue in the Documentation around loading the
> >> JDBC driver. This page documents how:
> >> http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/93/load.html
> >>
> >> However, as of JDK6/JDBC 4.0, it should not be necessary to use the
> >>
> >> Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
> >>
> >> method to load the JDBC driver as they are automatically loaded – see
> >> Javadoc here
> >>
> >> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/sql/DriverManager.html
>
> That's valid, but minor, really; the Class.forName(...) call is harmless.
>
> Given how badly confused users seem to be about JDBC3 vs JDBC4 etc, I'm
> reluctant to remove this until Java SE 5 is dead and gone and PgJDBC
> drops JDBC4 support. Sometime around 2030 at the rate adoption of newer
> releases is going.
>
> A note to say that explicit loading is ineffective if using a JDBC4
> driver and on Java 1.6 or newer would be reasonable.
>
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> Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
> PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
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