The first thing you'll learn in this PostgreSQL and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) tutorial is that most developers simply call it Postgres. The two terms are both interchangeable and official. Use ...

Does the JDBC driver for PostgreSQL just throw away capitalization? <BR>I'm using postgresql-8.0-311.jdbc3.jar to connect to 8.0.3 on the local machine. I created the tables with pgAdmin III.

I am writing a java class to access the DB via JDBC.<br><br>According to the docs I have read, cygwin already comes with the postgresql JDBC driver. I believe it is called postgresql.jar.