Re: [INTERFACES] JDBC postgresql.Driver

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, David Giffin wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying out an O'Reilly java example on my Windows95 machine. I have
> downloaded the precompiled version of postgresql.jar. But for some reason
> the the complier doesn't recongize that the postgresql driver is there.
>
> ---
> C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP>javac -classpath c:\windows\desktop\postgresql.jar
> ExecuteSQL
> .java
> ExecuteSQL.java:33: Undefined variable or class name: postgresql
> Class.forName(postgresql.Driver);
> ^

You missed out the quotes:

> Class.forName("postgresql.Driver");

> Should I being calling the driver by a different name? I'm not sure what
> is going on here?

Just the quotes are missing. It should work fine from there.

Peter

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