Re: Error in Programmer's Guide: JDBC

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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