When I check before this code to see what driver's are available via DriverManager.getDrivers(), it reports this (note there's only one non-PG driver for JDBC/ODBC):
18:03:14 BEFORE REGISTER DriverManager.getDrivers() returned driver: sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver@3315a56d name: sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver; accepts URL jdbc:postgresql://localhost.localdomain/demo: false
But right after, I show the driver instance I created, then do DriverManager.getDrivers() again, but this time I get TWO PG JDBC drivers (along with the JDBC/ODBC), the second of which matches the one I registered. 18:03:14 DriverManager.registerDriver() org.postgresql.Driver@3086f9bf
18:03:14 AFTER REGISTER DriverManager.getDrivers() returned driver: sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver@3315a56d name: sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver; accepts URL jdbc:postgresql://localhost.localdomain/demo: false 18:03:14 AFTER REGISTER DriverManager.getDrivers() returned driver: org.postgresql.Driver@29559094 name: org.postgresql.Driver; accepts URL jdbc:postgresql://localhost.localdomain/demo: true 18:03:14 AFTER REGISTER DriverManager.getDrivers() returned driver: org.postgresql.Driver@3086f9bf name: org.postgresql.Driver; accepts URL jdbc:postgresql://localhost.localdomain/demo: true
Why are there two? Where does the org.postgresql.Driver@29559094 instance come from?
I am running Java 1.7.0_25 with PG JDBC driver postgresql-9.2-1003.jdbc4.jar.