Redhat 8 default database warning: JDBC problems

This is a summary of the problems I had getting JDBC working with the
Redhat Database that comes with the Redhat 8.0 installation, which
are treated in an earlier thread. "forName finds Driver but
getConnection doesn.t".

Very simple, really. I believe I correctly configured PostgreSQL; the
postgresql.conf file had "tcpip_sockets=true", the pg_hba.conf file
had "host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 password," the driver from
both Redhat and PostgreSQL were in the path. I could load the driver
with the Class.forName() call, but not make the connection.

I downloaded the upgrade packages and installed. Same thing.

I uninstalled all the packages. Then I installed the source tarball
for 7.2.3. I could not run make successfully with and configuration
options other than "./configure". All --with-x and --enable-y options
broke make.

I reinstalled the OS without the Redhat database, installed Java
1.3.1 and the Java Web Services Developers Pack, and all ran fine.
The same program that had failed with the Redhat distribution worked
right away.

Redhat's site mentions that their database has been approved for
Redhat 7.3. Perhaps they distribute incompatible software with the
8.0 distribution.

Hope this saves somebody some grief. Thanks for all the helpful words
from those who wrote me back.

__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
http://mailplus.yahoo.com