Re: JDBC connection problem

Brian,

Try using lower case for the name of your database.

Postgresql and upper case is an impedance mismatch.

Dave
On 5-Feb-08, at 1:05 AM, Guy Rouillier wrote:

> Brian Tomaszewski wrote:
>> I am having trouble connecting to a psql database running on
>> Debian GNU/Linux system
>> The version of psql I am using in the system is 8.2.6.
>> No matter what I do, I continually am getting the error:
>> /Backend start-up failed: FATAL: database "RW_GEO" does not exist
>> /when my JDBC component tries to connect using a URL like this:
>> jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/RW_GEO
>> from a tomcat app
>> I have confirmed that the database RW_GEO does in fact exist as I
>> can see/query tables from it from psql.
>> Also, when I run my app on my development machine (windows), I can
>> connect via tomcat with no problems to my local psql server.
>
> I'm trying to follow your runtime environment, but some pieces are
> missing. When you say you can query the database running on Debian
> using psql, is that psql running on your Windows box or on the
> Debian box? I don't think this has anything to do with JDBC. The
> URL you show above has "localhost" as the server for the DB. That's
> probably not right, is it? I wouldn't think you'd have Tomcat
> running on your database server.
>
> So, run psql from whatever box is running Tomcat, and figure out how
> to connect it to your DB server. Once you've done that, you should
> be able to just transfer the connection settings to JDBC. I'm
> anticipating once you attempt to do that, you'll encounter a
> connection error. That's because you need to update pg_hba.conf to
> allow access to your database from remote hosts.
>
> --
> Guy Rouillier
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