Re: Cannot connect to postgresql 7.4.2

Dave Page wrote:
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> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: pgadmin-support-owner@postgresql.org 
>>[mailto:pgadmin-support-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Virgil Frum
>>Sent: 11 October 2004 16:24
>>To: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
>>Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Cannot connect to postgresql 7.4.2
>>
>>
>>>OK, I found out what's happening. I've been testing with 
>>
>>the correct 
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>>>versions from 
>>>
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>>http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/snapshots/postgresql/libs-win32-
>>20040927.zip
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>>>  but my distribution batch copied older versions.
>>>
>>>Please download that zip, replace the dlls and try again. This will 
>>>hopefully fix the problem; I'll upload a corrected snapshot tonight.
>>
>>Downloaded and tested. It's nice to see that things are 
>>working as expected.
>>Thanks.
> 
> 
> Glad it's working. I should point out that it's possible we may see
> another breakage here before long. I discovered that the exports from
> VC++/Borland and Mingw builds of libpq.dll don't match. Magnus Hagander
> has been playing with the Mingw build to make it share a .def file with
> VC++ which appears to be working, but following discussion with Tom
> Lane, he is currently reviewing the exported API to figure out exactly
> what is and what isn't needed. Oh, and just to put the icing on the
> cake, the default, non-ssl build has an intentionally different API from
> the ssl build that we use (and ssl symbols are not exported at all by
> the VC++/Borland DLLs, even if built with SSL support!).
> 
> Anyway, once that little lot has been sorted out, I'll post an updated
> libpq.[lib|dll].

Seems we'll have to hold RC1 until we're satisfied with libpq situation 
(or distribute it statically linked, safety over size).

Regards,
Andreas