Re: Building Postgresql under Windows question

Dann Corbit wrote:
> In this function:
> static bool
> test_postmaster_connection(bool do_checkpoint)
>
> This code will never succeed:
>     snprintf(connstr, sizeof(connstr),
>              "dbname=postgres port=%s connect_timeout=5",
> portstr);
>
>     for (i = 0; i < wait_seconds; i++)
>     {
>         if ((conn = PQconnectdb(connstr)) != NULL &&
>             (PQstatus(conn) == CONNECTION_OK ||
>              PQconnectionNeedsPassword(conn)))
>         {
>             PQfinish(conn);
>             success = true;
>             break;
>         }
>
>
> Because pg_hba.conf has this:
> # TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD
>
> # IPv4 local connections:
> host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          trust
> # IPv6 local connections:
> host    all         all         ::1/128               trust
>
> to allow connections from the local machine.
>
> (A password is not needed to connect, so the code always fails).
>
>   


Why won't
PQstatus(conn) == CONNECTION_OK 

be true and thus the code will succeed without requiring a password?

cheers

andrew