Re: Slow connection once the PC is network connected

On 26 Oct 2010, at 11:39, Yan Cheng CHEOK wrote:

> Hello, I am deploying a database to customer PC, which will be only connected by local application.
>
> However, I realize once the PC is network connected, the connection take extremely long time (around 10 seconds)

That sounds suspiciously like the default timeout for DNS lookups.
What platform is this? Windows?
Is that machine able to look up localhost?

> May I know why this happen? I was wondering whether is there any workaround to overcome this?
>
> I connect the database using C++ code
>
> PQconnectdb("dbname = ProductionFactory user = postgres password = password");

Does it help any to add hostaddr = 127.0.0.1 to that string?

Alban Hertroys

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