RE: null pointer exception

What is url?

You need to use either:

jdbc:postgresql:db Where host is localhost
or
jdbc:postgresql://host/db

Peter

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-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Setzkorn [mailto:C(dot)Setzkorn(at)csc(dot)liv(dot)ac(dot)uk]
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 11:38 AM
To: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [INTERFACES] null pointer exception

dear mailing list

i am trying to built a jdbc connection to postgres .... but

db = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql://url", "username",
"");

throws a null pointer exception. could anyone tell me what might be the
reason? many many thanks in advance.

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Chris

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