Bug 78301
Summary: | JDBC not supported by Red Hat 8/Postgresql7.2 | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Database | Reporter: | Need Real Name <d_r_king> |
Component: | JDBC | Assignee: | Fernando Nasser <fnasser> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Permaine Cheung <pcheung> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-01-15 22:15:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2002-11-20 22:31:16 UTC
I upgraded to the 7.2.3 PostgreSQL version using the Redhat downloads. Still no luck. I tried uninstalling the packages, and building from the 7.2.3 source from PostgreSQL, but all the configure options I wanted broke the build. I finally had to reinstall 8.0 without the database. PostgreSQL 7.2.3 then build and installed perfectly, and I have it up and running. It cost me days trying to figure this out. I think that the database isn't fully supported for 8.0 yet, just 7.3, and shouldn't have been distributed with 8.0. Reassigning this bug to new owner. Fernando, Eventhough this is not an RHDB problem, please have a look. Maybe it's something in the path. Cheers, Patrick Dennis and I have already worked out the problem. The jdkgcj-0.2.3-1 package adds a java command to /usr/bin that actually uses GNU Java. So, if this is installed, one has not only to set the JAVA_HOME variable but also make sure the PATH has the Java SDK ahead of /usr/bin. This is not a problem with the IBM JRE (which sets the path correctly) but the Sun ones are not that smart. We would like to see the need for setting the PATH documented in some more general place, but the only place we have control of is the JDBC documentation of the Red Hat Database. I am filing a request that a paragraph be added to the "Installing the Driver" section (Programmers Guide and HOWTO JDBC document) to suggest that the user check if the proper java is being used and if not that the PATH be corrected. As there is no change in the code I am closing it as NOTABUG (I could not find anything else more appropriate anyway). Thanks again to Dennis for spotting this and for helping me track down the problem. |