Quoting R9Pilot <a@a.net>:
> Has anyone had any luck interfacing StarOffice to PostgreSQL using
> JDBC?
So far, I've not managed it. I'm going to have another crack at it before 7.1
is released, but I'm getting exactly the same result as you.
It might be the same problem that JBuilder has had in the past, but that ones
almost cracked.
Peter
>
> Here is what I have tried:
> 1. Created a pgsql database called test2 on our linux machine (rh
> 6.2/postgresql 7.0.3).
> 2. Placed the jdbc7.0-1.2.jar file in the class path on my windows
> machine
> and renamed it to postgresql.jar.
> 3. Tried to create a new database interface in star office by clicking
> on
> the new database and setting the following:
> TYPE tab, type = JDBC;
> JDBC tab, JDBC driver classe = postgresql.jar;
> URL = jdbc:postgresql://ourhost:5432/test2
> USERNAME = ...,
> PASSWORD = ...,
>
> 4. When I click OK, all I ever get is "Error
> reading data from database". No other
> information is ever provided.
>
>
> Any idea what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>
>
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Peter Mount peter@retep.org.uk
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