Re: [INTERFACES] JDBC compile error

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Pap Tibor wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I was unable to compile the JDBC driver in the PostgreSQL 6.3.2 source
> tree. I got 21 errors:
>
> ...
> ./postgresql/DatabaseMetaData.java:2058: class postgresql.ResultSet is an
> abstract class. It can't be instantiated.
>     return new ResultSet(connection, f, v, "OK", 1);
>            ^
> ./postgresql/DatabaseMetaData.java:2433: class postgresql.ResultSet is an
> abstract class. It can't be instantiated.
>     return new ResultSet(connection, f, v, "OK", 1);
>            ^
> 21 errors
> make: *** [postgresql/CallableStatement.class] Error 1
> #
>
> My CLASSPATH environment variable was:
> # echo $CLASSPATH
> /usr/local/jdk1.1.5/lib/:./

remove the CLASSPATH with:

# unset CLASSPATH

then run make. These errors are caused by javac getting confused by both
the postgresql and java.sql packages

This is covered in the README and in the faq

http://www.retep.org/postgres

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