Re: psqlodbc libpq version: quiet error on connect failure

Thanks, I've applied a patch to fix this. Iirc, exit_nicely() is used in
the libpq examples in the PostgreSQL manual :-)

/D 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-odbc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marko Ristola
> Sent: 20 July 2005 12:23
> To: pgsql-odbc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ODBC] psqlodbc libpq version: quiet error on connect failure
> 
> 
> Problem
> 
> psqlodbc, with libpq enabled, will do exit(1), if connecting into the
> database fails.
> A good fix seems to be to remove the exit_nicely() function call.
> 
> ----------------------
> static void
> exit_nicely(PGconn *conn)
> {
>         PQfinish(conn);
>         exit(1);
> }
> ----------------------
> 
> Connect code:
> 
>     self->pgconn = PQconnectdb(conninfo);
>     if (PQstatus(self->pgconn) != CONNECTION_OK)
>     {
>        
> CC_set_error(self,CONNECTION_COULD_NOT_ESTABLISH,PQerrorMessag
> e(self->pgconn));
>         mylog("could not establish connection to the database %s
> \n",PQerrorMessage(self->pgconn));
>         exit_nicely(self->pgconn);
>         free(conninfo);
>         return 0;
>     }
> 
> ------------------------
> 
> Marko Ristola
> 
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