[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Reina) writes: > However, what about in the general case where my client program > doesn't know if a password is required or not. Is there any libpq > function to query the server if a password is required? Perhaps, > there's a return value for PQconnectdb which would tell me that the > connection failed because of the password? (In which case, I can ask > for the password and try the connection again.)
Look into the psql source code; it does essentially this. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly