I am a complete newbie when it comes to using PostgreSQL and JDBC. I have successfully installed PostgreSQL on my Mac G4 running Mac OS X 10.1.
I'm able to start the DB daemon (with -i extension), I've created and populated a database (can query the database, etc.). When I installed PostgreSQL, I created a user account named "Newuser" on my computer, and start the DB daemon while logged onto that account (in a console window after logging into the postgres account using 'su - Newuser'). I've downloaded the pre-compliled jdbc7.1-1.1.jar JDBC driver. I put the JDBC driver file in /usr/local/pgsql/share/java. I've been trying to use JDBC to connect to a database and started with examples available in the source file.
When I try and run the executable after compilation I get an error. Specifically, the line of code in "Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");" returns the error "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
I became nuke over here and cannot move ahead....
Please help..Anybody come across this before..
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