Java SQL "ERROR: Relation "Table_Name" does not exist"

Question

I'm trying to connect netbeans to my postgresql database. The connection seems to have worked as I don't get any errors or exceptions when just connecting, methods such as getCatalog() also return the correct answers.

But when I try to run a simple SQL statement I get the error "ERROR: relation "TABLE_NAME" does not exist", where TABLE_NAME is any one of my tables which DO exist in the database. Here's my code:

    Statement stmt = con.createStatement();

    ResultSet rs;

    String query = "SELECT * FROM clients";

    rs = stmt.executeQuery(query);

I was thinking that netbeans might not be finding the tables because it's not looking in the default schema (public), is there a way of setting the schema in java?

EDIT: My connection code. The database name is Cinemax, when I leave out the statement code, I get no errors.

    String url = "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/Cinemax";
    try{

    try {
        Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
        System.err.println("Couldn't find driver class:");
        cnfe.printStackTrace();
    }

    Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection( url,"postgres","desertrose147");

Answer 1

I suspect you created the table using double quotes using e.g. "Clients" or some other combination of upper/lowercase characters and therefor the table name is case sensitive now.

What does the statement

 SELECT table_schema, table_name
 FROM information_schema.tables 
 WHERE lower(table_name) = 'clients'

return?

If the table name that is returned is not lowercase you have to use double quotes when referring to it, something like this:

String query = "SELECT * FROM \"Clients\"";