Re: JDBC connection problem

Guy,

Thanks for the response. See below for clarifications:

On Feb 5, 2008 1:05 AM, Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1(at)burntmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Brian Tomaszewski wrote:
> > I am having trouble connecting to a psql database running on Debian
> > GNU/Linux system
> >
> > The version of psql I am using in the system is 8.2.6.
> >
> > No matter what I do, I continually am getting the error:
> >
> > /Backend start-up failed: FATAL: database "RW_GEO" does not exist
> >
> > /when my JDBC component tries to connect using a URL like this:
> >
> > jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/RW_GEO
> >
> > from a tomcat app
> >
> > I have confirmed that the database RW_GEO does in fact exist as I can
> > see/query tables from it from psql.
> >
> > Also, when I run my app on my development machine (windows), I can
> > connect via tomcat with no problems to my local psql server.
>
> I'm trying to follow your runtime environment, but some pieces are
> missing. When you say you can query the database running on Debian
> using psql, is that psql running on your Windows box or on the Debian
> box?

I can run psql (the command line tool) on Debian and using the psql tool on
Debian see/query the database that is always being reported as not existing
when the app connects.

On my Windows box, I use pgAdmin interface. I also develop the Java Code for
the app on windows and then upload it to the server to run/tes. Also, I
built the inital database on the windows box, and then uploaded and restored
it to the debian postgres running there

> I don't think this has anything to do with JDBC. The URL you show
> above has "localhost" as the server for the DB. That's probably not
> right, is it? I wouldn't think you'd have Tomcat running on your
> database server.

yes, we do have tomcat running on the database server (i.e the debian
server), is that a bad thing?

My thought with using localhost on the debain is that is that is how the
tomcat could easily connect

So, run psql from whatever box is running Tomcat, and figure out how to
> connect it to your DB server.

I have done this on windows. Every thing for my app on windows is on the
same box (tomcat, postgres etc). When I port the app up to the debian
server, the connection fails

> Once you've done that, you should be able
> to just transfer the connection settings to JDBC. I'm anticipating once
> you attempt to do that, you'll encounter a connection error. That's
> because you need to update pg_hba.conf to allow access to your database
> from remote hosts.
>

Ok, so is the real issue then having tomcat and postgres on the same server?
Should they be physically separate? If they are not, what do you need to
consider in terms of configuration

Thank you for your time

Brian

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