Re: installing postgresql jdbc driver in Mac OS X Lion

Good question. Do you know what the -jar switch does and why the JDBC Drivers are called Drivers?

On a side note:
http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/83/classpath.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDBC_driver

Kind Regards
Altaf Malik

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From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Tuesday, 28 June 2011 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: [JDBC] installing postgresql jdbc driver in Mac OS X Lion

On 06/27/11 8:22 AM, Shaun Langley wrote:
> I'm trying to install the jdbc driver on my Mac OS X Lion installation.  I'm running JRE 1.6.0_26.
>
> I've downloaded postgresql-9.0-801.jdbc4.jar
>
> and run
>
> java -jar postgresql-9.0-801.jdbc4.jar
>
> which returns
>
> Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from
> postgresql-9.0-801.jdbc4.jar
>
>
>
> Any help trying to resolve this issue would be appreciated!

JDBC is a runtime library, you need to load it with your application
program.

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