Re: ECPG could not connect to the database.

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:52:07PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I do not see how that can be ecpg's fault --- it just does
>
> this->connection = PQsetdbLogin(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, dbname, user, passwd);
>
> which means that any specification of the host must come from the PGHOST
> environment variable and will be handled entirely inside libpq.

Not exactly. It is possible to use PGHOST but you also can add the hostname
to the dbname.

> suppose there might be C libraries out there that are pickier. What
> is the platform showing this problem?

I'm not sure. I was mailed this by a user but don't know which platform he
uses. However, I can reproduce the problem on my Linux machine.

Michael
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