>
> Then I stopped the network (eth0) on the postgreSQL server and hit
<return>
> again and still got
>
> > Connection status... OK
>
> as the output. However Trying to execute the program with the postgreSQL
server
> offline resulted in the expected error messages, so it seems that in this
case
> the status was detected successfully.
>
I tried stopping the network on my machine, and was still able to connect
when logged on locally via psql. I presume this is because the local unix
sockets connection still works from the local machine. You might test this
by editing your pg_hba.conf file to disallow local sockets. e.g.:
local all reject
Hope this helps,
Joe