Magnus Hagander wrote:
> I get a crash on win32 when connecting to a server that's not started.
> In fe-connect.c, we have:
> 
>               display_host_addr = (conn->pghostaddr == NULL) &&
>                       (strcmp(conn->pghost, host_addr) != 0);
> 
> In my case, conn->pghost is NULL at this point, as is
> conn->pghostaddr. Thus, it crashes in strcmp().

I have researched this with Magnus, and was able to reproduce the
failure.  It happens only on Win32 because that is missing unix-domain
sockets so "" maps to localhost, which is an IP address.  I have applied
the attached patch.  The new output is:

        $ psql test
        psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
        Is the server running on host "???" and accepting
        TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

Note the "???".  This happens because the mapping of "" to localhost
happens below the libpq library variable level.

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diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c
index b1523a6..8d9400b 100644
*** /tmp/pgrevert.7311/PXMjec_fe-connect.c	Thu Dec 16 08:36:11 2010
--- src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c	Thu Dec 16 08:31:51 2010
*************** connectFailureMessage(PGconn *conn, int 
*** 1031,1037 ****
  			strcpy(host_addr, "???");
  
  		display_host_addr = (conn->pghostaddr == NULL) &&
! 			(strcmp(conn->pghost, host_addr) != 0);
  
  		appendPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
  						  libpq_gettext("could not connect to server: %s\n"
--- 1031,1038 ----
  			strcpy(host_addr, "???");
  
  		display_host_addr = (conn->pghostaddr == NULL) &&
! 							(conn->pghost != NULL) &&
! 							(strcmp(conn->pghost, host_addr) != 0);
  
  		appendPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
  						  libpq_gettext("could not connect to server: %s\n"
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