Re: Driver for Postgres 7.2

Hi David,

As others have told you you really should upgrade postgresql. 7.2 is
not supported any more.

That being said, the driver will still work ( sort of ). The metadata
stuff won't.

you can get them at http://jdbc.postgresql.org.

Dave
On 29-May-06, at 2:44 PM, David Marin Arroyo wrote:

> Hi
>
> My Postgres version is :
>
> PostgreSQL 7.2.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC)
> 3.2 20020903 (
> Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
>
> I added in CLASSPATH my driver but I found this error with the
> option verbose in java.
>
> [Loaded java.sql.Connection from C:\Archivos de programa\Java
> \jre1.4.2_06\lib\rt
> .jar]
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.postgresql.Driver
>
> Where is the page where I can download these drivers?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>> From: Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com>
>> To: David Marin Arroyo <cyberositopo(at)hotmail(dot)com>
>> CC: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> Subject: Re: [JDBC] Driver for Postgres 7.2
>> Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 20:28:17 +0200
>>
>> Hi, David,
>>
>> David Marin Arroyo schrieb:
>>
>> > I want to communicate my Java application(JDK 1.4.2) with one
>> database
>> > Postgres 7.2.
>>
>> You should consider updating your server, as the 7.2 series is not
>> supported any more, that means that no bugs and security fixes
>> will be
>> issued by the PostgreSQL developers. If you cannot afford a major
>> upgrade, make sure that you have at least the latest 7.2.X point
>> release.
>>
>> > I have downloaded driver jdbc (pg72jdbc2) but I found one error
>> in my
>>
>> It should be possible to use the latest Driver (8.1) against a 7.2
>> server, I personally used the 7.4 driver against a 7.2 server
>> successfully. This way, you can profit from driver updates and fixes
>> since 7.2.
>>
>> > application: org.postgresql.Driver not found.
>>
>> It seems that the driver jar is not in your classpath. Try to enshure
>> that the jar is in your classpath, deployed in your application
>> server,
>> or (dangerous) installed in the extension directory of your JRE /
>> JDK.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Schabi
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