Re: Help with pq++

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:21:43PM -0500, Belcher, Jim wrote:
> the code looks fine, is the user you run this code with
> in the database as a valid user for database "mydb"?

The user exists, but I don't know if for that database. How do I know?

Thanks

Aristide

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aristide Aragon [mailto:aristide(at)lionking(dot)org]
> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 8:11 PM
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Help with pq++
>
>
> Hello
> I need to make a program that uses pq++, before starting I made a little
> program to see if I understood correctly how to use pq++, however I have a
> problem: The program can't connect to the DB.
> My code looks like this:
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <libpq++.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> PgDatabase db("dbname=mydb");
> if (!(db.ConnectionBad()))
> {
> printf("OK\n");
> exit(0);
> }
> else
> {
> printf("Error connecting\n");
> exit(1);
> }
> }
>
> And no matter what I do (I tried with the env variables PGHOST, PGPORT,
> PGDATABASE and PGUSER) the program always gives me "Error connecting".
> Can somebody help? I was expecting to have problems, but not this early.
>
> Aristide