Re: BUG #5837: PQstatus() fails to report lost connection

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <msk@cloudmark.com> writes:
> Given what you say here, this seems to be an exception for which there
> is currently no detection mechanism short of looking for that one
> specific error string indicating it was administrative action causing
> the error.

This is complete nonsense.  If you followed the documented method for
using PQgetResult -- ie, keep calling it till it returns NULL, rather
than assuming there will be a specific number of results --- then
PQstatus would show you the bad status afterwards.

            regards, tom lane