Re: [DOCS] JDBC documentation - issue report

Ya, this really is an innocuous issue

Dave Cramer

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On 20 August 2014 00:27, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> On 08/19/2014 01:12 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Forwarding this to pgsql-jdbc mailing list.
> >
> > On 08/18/2014 06:18 AM, Christopher Barham wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Just spotted a possible issue in the Documentation around loading the
> >> JDBC driver. This page documents how:
> >> http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/93/load.html
> >>
> >> However, as of JDK6/JDBC 4.0, it should not be necessary to use the
> >>
> >> Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
> >>
> >> method to load the JDBC driver as they are automatically loaded – see
> >> Javadoc here
> >>
> >> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/sql/DriverManager.html
>
> That's valid, but minor, really; the Class.forName(...) call is harmless.
>
> Given how badly confused users seem to be about JDBC3 vs JDBC4 etc, I'm
> reluctant to remove this until Java SE 5 is dead and gone and PgJDBC
> drops JDBC4 support. Sometime around 2030 at the rate adoption of newer
> releases is going.
>
> A note to say that explicit loading is ineffective if using a JDBC4
> driver and on Java 1.6 or newer would be reasonable.
>
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