On May 19, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Gustavo Lopes wrote:
> The problem can be very easily reproduced by creating a C program
> which calls PQconnectdb with a host parameter that points to a machine
> that is not running postgres.
> Running the same program under linux (although I used older versions
> of the interface and the server) does not cause any problems.
Try comparing what you are doing in this case to the psql source. It
uses libpq and I run tests regularly that try connecting to an invalid
server. I have not seen any problems.
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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