Re: getting integer info.

The correct for is jdbc:protocol://host/database.  So if your database
is business, and the host is www.abcdefg.com, then it would be:
jdbc:postgresql//www.abcdefg.com/business

Jeff Deroshia

On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 08:10 AM, Mark Molenda wrote:

> Two JDBC questions.  I'm using the JDBC driver that I created when
> compiling postgres.
>
> 1) I use the following line to connect to postgres when I'm running
> servlets on the same machine as the database.
>
> conn =
> DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql:business","postgres","");
>
> How do I change this URL to be used when connecting across the lan?
>
>
> 2) It seems that there is a problem getting an integer from a result
> set.  If you use a simple select statement and it fills the result set
> with a string you can use the   result.getString("columnname");  and it
> works fine.  If you the same type of select with an integer column, and
> you use result.getInt("columnname"), it immediately goes to the catch
> block.  (result is really a ResultSet object instance).
>
> Any help in this would be very helpful.
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
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