On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 04:03:29PM +0100, Herr wrote: > Am 03.03.2013 11:30, schrieb Peter Bex: > > Like I said, it just checks the object type, not whether the connection > > is still alive. libpq offers no way to check this. I could check whether > > the connection-pointer is NULL, but it being not-NULL is no guarantee > > that the underlying connection is still alive. > > I see a PQstatus function in the PG 9.1 docs, chapter 31.2, and it takes of > course a > conn pointer as parameter. Might be a candidate.
Ah yes, I had missed that one. Maybe I'll add it later. Currently the status is checked only at connection time, which is sufficient for most purposes. > > Thanks for pointing out the bogus test! > > My pleasure. I am not through checking it all yet ;-) :) > I have been using postgresql a lot in Tcl and PHP, but scheme is new to me. I hope you find this more convenient than the shitty functions provided by PHP. I always get frustrated having to write code for handling booleans and arrays in PHP all the time, over and over again. How is TCL's interface? Cheers, Peter -- http://www.more-magic.net _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
