The following bug has been logged on the website: Bug reference: 6657 Logged by: Eric Diven Email address: edi...@edsiohio.com PostgreSQL version: 9.0.2 Operating system: Solaris Description:
First off, I should thank you all for the generally excellent documentation. The plpgsql documentation has been particularly helpful, in large part thanks to the relevant and well-explained examples. That said, I would humbly suggest that the documentation for the PQconnectdbParams function omits certain details. Notably, the function will return NULL if you pass in a keywords array with an unrecognized keyword. I'll be the first to admit that passing in a keyword of "host_addr" instead of "hostaddr" was kind of a dumb mistake on my part, but I'd argue that I'd have figured it out a lot sooner if this were the documented behavior of PQconnectdbParams for this case. I realize I'm submitting this against an out of date version of postgresql, and the the behavior might have changed since then, but since the documentation covers all of 9.0.x, I would say that it still bears updating. Thanks, Eric Diven Example code follows: #include <libpq-fe.h> int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { PGconn *conn = NULL; char *keys[] = { "host_addr", "user", "password", NULL }; char *values[] = { "192.168.0.42", "user", "password", NULL }; conn = PQconnectdbParams (keys, values, 0); printf ("%p\n", conn); return 0; } -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs