SQLDriverConnect function call hangs

Hi All

I am using postgres 8.1.2 with unixODBC-2.2.11-2 and psqlodbc-08.03.0200 .
I am having a cluster setup. Once it happened that,
my application was trying to connect to postgres, which was lying on
another system in cluster , and it got stuck after calling
SQLDriverConnect function . I took a core of the hung process and the
backtrace is as below :

(gdb) bt
#0 0xb7f1b410 in ?? ()
#1 0xb05c4a48 in ?? ()
#2 0xffffffff in ?? ()
#3 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#4 0xb7bd8dc4 in poll () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#5 0xb725c7b4 in SOCK_wait_for_ready (sock=0x8b956b30, output=0,
retry_count=1) at socket.c:529
#6 0xb725ce9a in SOCK_get_next_byte (self=0x8b956b30, peek=0) at
socket.c:929
#7 0xb725d05c in SOCK_get_id (self=0x8b956b30) at socket.c:692
#8 0xb723844d in CC_connect (self=0x8b961670, password_req=0 '\0',
salt_para=0xb05c6130 "") at connection.c:1600
#9 0xb72459f8 in PGAPI_DriverConnect (hdbc=0x8b961670, hwnd=0x0,
szConnStrIn=0xfffffffc <Address 0xfffffffc out of bounds>, cbConnStrIn=50,
szConnStrOut=0xb05ca790 "", cbConnStrOutMax=4096, pcbConnStrOut=0xb05ca38e,
fDriverCompletion=0) at drvconn.c:225
#10 0xb7270d1f in SQLDriverConnect (hdbc=0x8b961670, hwnd=0xfffffffc,
szConnStrIn=0xfffffffc <Address 0xfffffffc out of bounds>, cbConnStrIn=50,
szConnStrOut=0xfffffffc <Address 0xfffffffc out of bounds>,
cbConnStrOutMax=4096, pcbConnStrOut=0xfffffffc, fDriverCompletion=0) at
odbcapi.c:225
#11 0xb7d2aa88 in SQLDriverConnect (hdbc=0x87b67130, hwnd=0x0,
conn_str_in=0x892520c "SERVERNAME=172.16.1.1;DSN=abc;DATABASE=abc;UID=abc",
len_conn_str_in=50,
conn_str_out=0xb05ca790 "", conn_str_out_max=4096,
ptr_conn_str_out=0xb05ca38e, driver_completion=0) at SQLDriverConnect.c:1155

After analysing the issue, I found that the system, on which postgres was
running, was overloaded. Its CPU usage was almost 100 % and may be thats
why it wasn't responding to
the SQLDriverConnect request . Later on the system (on which postgres was
running) was rebooted . Now my questions are :

1, why SQLDriverConnect function call got hung.
2. Why didn't it simply return with some error code when it wasn't able to
connect to postgres ( as it wasnt responding because of system load.)
3. Why it still didnt return when the system was rebooted ??
4. What can be done to make SQLDriverConnect function return with error in
case it is not able to connect to postgres for whatsoever reason.
5. Can connection timeout be set through SQLSetConnectAttr,
SQL_ATTR_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT to make SQLDriverConnect return after certain
amount of time in case there
is no response from postgres ?? how can this be done ??
6. Is there any other better way to overcome this issue ??

Thanks...
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