At 13:05 23/02/01 -0500, Jeff Duffy wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Andy Engdahl wrote:
>
> > I seem to be having some problems w/ the psql jdbc driver. I'm able to
> load the driver, but as soon as I try to connect w/ the database. here's
> my code:
> >
> > import java.sql.*;
> >
> > public class dataBase {
> > public static void main(String [] args){
> > try {
> > Class.forName("org.postgresql.DriverClass").newInstance();
>
> The class instance will load successfully, but this isn't what you
>want. Replace org.postgresql.DriverClass with org.postgresql.Driver.
I'd also remove the newInstance() as it will create a second object that
will just occupy memory (the class has a static initialiser).
Peter