Re: connecting with libpq interface

From: Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
To: Vincent Predoehl <vpredoehl(at)phoenixwebgroup(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: connecting with libpq interface
Date: 2008-07-13 15:56:10
Message-ID: 487A259A.9090803@bluegap.ch
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Hi,

Vincent Predoehl wrote:
>>> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'pqxx::broken_connection'
>>> what(): could not connect to server: No such file or directory
>>> Is the server running locally and accepting
>>> connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/
>>> postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>>
>> PQerrorMessage() should give you the same info in your standalone
>> libpq program.
>
> Yes it does:
>
> could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket
> "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

Something similar has biten me before as well. I figured it is the
Debian packager's decision to put those socket files under
/var/run/postgresql/, which is not the Postgres standard.

Regards

Markus

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