Clojure jdbc create-table statement does not run unless using Leiningen REPL

Question

I\'ve got a small Clojure program that uses the Clojure JDBC tools to create a table in an HSQL database. However, it only seems to actually create the table if I run it fro

Answer 1

This is a common HSQLDB configuration question.

HSQLDB's default configuration is not intended for test usage. As a result, it delays writing and synching the .log entries by 500 milliseconds and it does not shutdown the database when the connection is closed. Try either of these settings in your URL:

:subname "file:/tmp/tramwaydb;hsqldb.write_delay=false"

or

:subname "file:/tmp/tramwaydb;shutdown=true"

See the various option here: http://hsqldb.org/doc/2.0/guide/dbproperties-chapt.html