No suitable driver found for jdbc:postgresql://192.168.1.8:5432/NexentaSearch

Question

I wrote following the java program

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet         


        

Answer 1

Just use the jar command to extract the files your application needs to make the connection with the database server. e.g. jar -xf jdbc_file. Compile it with the javac -cp . and run it with the java -cp .

And that's it. It will work.

Answer 2

You are using a JDBC 3 driver. JDBC 4 drivers are loaded automatically loaded by the DriverManager whereas JDBC 3 drivers are not. Therefore you need to invoke

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

once in your application, (prior to invoking DriverManager#getConnection).

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Alternatively, you can use the JDBC 4 PostgreSQL driver from here which will not require the above method call.

Answer 3

Use DriverManager.registerDriver(new org.postgresql.Driver());