The JDBC API is a standard interface to databases using the Java programming language.

This chapter discusses the following topics:

JDBC is a standard API that is documented on Oracle’s website. See the JDBC and the JDBC documentation content, noting the API limitations of the PSQLdriver in PSQL JDBC Driver Limitations.

Other useful sites for JDBC programming include Tomcat information at jakarta.apache.org and Apache information at www.apache.org.

For conceptual information on programming with the JDBC driver, see the following topics:

There are JDBC samples included with the PSQL SDK. Please see the SAMPLES directory under your PSQL SDK installation directory. If you installed to the default location, this would be file_path\PSQL\SDK\SAMPLES\JDBC.

For default locations of PSQL files, see Where are the PSQL files installed? in Getting Started With PSQL.