Re: Help with pq++

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 07:11:19PM -0600, Aristide Aragon wrote:
> 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.

You're right - that seems early. Can you connect to it with psql mydb?

Patrick