Re: connecting with libpq interface

Hi,

Vincent Predoehl wrote:
>>> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'pqxx::broken_connection'
>>>    what():  could not connect to server: No such file or directory
>>>          Is the server running locally and accepting
>>>          connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/
>>> postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>>
>> PQerrorMessage() should give you the same info in your standalone
>> libpq program.
> 
> Yes it does:
> 
> could not connect to server: No such file or directory
>         Is the server running locally and accepting
>         connections on Unix domain socket 
> "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

Something similar has biten me before as well. I figured it is the 
Debian packager's decision to put those socket files under 
/var/run/postgresql/, which is not the Postgres standard.

Regards

Markus