RE: null pointer exception

What is url?

You need to use either:
jdbc:postgresql:db        Where host is localhost
orjdbc:postgresql://host/db

Peter

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-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Setzkorn [mailto:C.Setzkorn@csc.liv.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 11:38 AM
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.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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