The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 1624
Logged by: Tom Donovan
Email address: tdonovan (AT) macromedia (DOT) com
PostgreSQL version: 8-0-311
Operating system: Windows 2000
Description: connect uses properties before URL
Details:

The JDBC DriverManager calls connect() in all loaded drivers to find a
driver for a URL.

The PostgreSQL driver iterates the properties before checking if it is a
PostgreSQL URL. If properties for any other driver are large (i.e. for an
in-memory db) or not String (as they should be) - this fails.

Recommend adding one line at
postgresql-jdbc-8.0-311.src\org\postgresql\Driver.java.in line 203

if (! url.toLowerCase().startsWith("jdbcostgresql:")) return null; //
not our URL

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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Tom Donovan wrote:

Then what is the purpose of Driver.acceptsURL ?

Could we see an actual failure scenario (stacktrace) here? I don't see
why a large number of properties would be a problem. A non-String object
in a Properties is a problem in the calling code, not ours.

Kris Jurka

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