Re: Help with pq++

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 07:11:19PM -0600, Aristide Aragon wrote:
> Hello
> I need to make a program that uses pq++, before starting I made a little program to see if I understood correctly how
touse pq++, however I have a problem: The program can't connect to the DB. 
> My code looks like this:
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <libpq++.h>
>
> int main()
> {
>    PgDatabase db("dbname=mydb");
>    if (!(db.ConnectionBad()))
>    {
>       printf("OK\n");
>       exit(0);
>    }
>    else
>    {
>       printf("Error connecting\n");
>       exit(1);
>    }
> }
>
> And no matter what I do (I tried with the env variables PGHOST, PGPORT, PGDATABASE and PGUSER) the program always
givesme "Error connecting". 
> Can somebody help? I was expecting to have problems, but not this early.

You're right - that seems early. Can you connect to it with psql mydb?

Patrick