PostgreSQL - Installing JDBC driver

Question

I\'m having a hard time working out how I should be installing the JDBC driver for PostgreSQL on my debian 6.0 server. I have moved the driver .jar into the following direct

Answer 1

In your IDE (Idea, Eclipse, etc) you need to add that path as a library.

Alternatively, you can compile and execute from the command-line, if you define a CLASSPATH variable which includes that.

export CLASSPATH=/usr/local/pgsql/share/java/postgresql.jar
javac -classpath $CLASSPATH MyDBApp.java
java -cp $CLASSPATH MyDBApp