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From: "Steven Smith" <steven@geometryit.com>
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Subject: Bad information in Chapter 58 'Connecting to the database'
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:41:04 +1000
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The documentation tells you to use the URL:
jdbc:postgresql://hostport/database,
the actual URL should contain a ':' between the host and port parts.