Re: psqlodbc libpq version: quiet error on connect failure

Thanks, I've applied a patch to fix this. Iirc, exit_nicely() is used in
the libpq examples in the PostgreSQL manual :-)

/D

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Marko Ristola
> Sent: 20 July 2005 12:23
> To: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [ODBC] psqlodbc libpq version: quiet error on connect failure
>
>
> Problem
>
> psqlodbc, with libpq enabled, will do exit(1), if connecting into the
> database fails.
> A good fix seems to be to remove the exit_nicely() function call.
>
> ----------------------
> static void
> exit_nicely(PGconn *conn)
> {
> PQfinish(conn);
> exit(1);
> }
> ----------------------
>
> Connect code:
>
> self->pgconn = PQconnectdb(conninfo);
> if (PQstatus(self->pgconn) != CONNECTION_OK)
> {
>
> CC_set_error(self,CONNECTION_COULD_NOT_ESTABLISH,PQerrorMessag
> e(self->pgconn));
> mylog("could not establish connection to the database %s
> \n",PQerrorMessage(self->pgconn));
> exit_nicely(self->pgconn);
> free(conninfo);
> return 0;
> }
>
> ------------------------
>
> Marko Ristola
>
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