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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] JDBC Connection
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From: Eric Marsden <emarsden@mail.dotcom.fr>
Date: 24 Aug 1998 15:40:25 +0200
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>>>>> "DrH" == Herrera  <drherlams@diandel.com> writes:

  DrH> I am trying to connect to PostgreSQL from Java (JDK 1.1.6)
  DrH> under RedHat Linux 5.1 using the JDBC interface. I have
  DrH> compiled the driver and tried to run the examples this way:
  DrH> 
  DrH> java -Djdbc.drivers=postgresql.Driver example.basic jdbc:postgresql:prueba
  DrH> postgres postgres
  DrH> 
  DrH> where 'prueba' is the name of an existing database.
  DrH> But I always get a 'Connection refused' error in 
  DrH> DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql:prueba")
  DrH> 
  DrH> I have modified pg_hba.conf to allow any user on any host
  DrH> access to any database but the error still remains.

Possible solution: have you started the database with the `-i' option
(to allow TCP/IP connections, which are used by the JDBC interface)?
Read the postmaster manual page for more details.  

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