Re: Connection Timeout

Mike Toews wrote:
> On 3 June 2010 02:01, Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp
> <mailto:inoue@tpf.co.jp>> wrote:
>
>
>     What kind of tool(e.g. ADO, ADO.NET <http://ADO.NET> on Windows) are
>     you using?
>
>     regards,
>     Hiroshi Inoue
>
>
> I'm using the PostgreSQL Unicode ODBC driver with Python (pyodbc) and
> VBA (ADO). I get the same 18 second timeout with both, regardless of
> what I provide in the connection string. In VBA, there is a
> ConnectionTimeout property, but it does not seem to have any influence,
> e.g.:
>
> ' With added reference Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.x Library
> Sub test()
>     Dim Conn As New ADODB.Connection
>     Dim ConnStr as String
>     ConnStr = "Driver={PostgreSQL
> Unicode};Server=123.4.5.6;Port=5432;Database=mydb;Uid=myid;Pwd=mypw;Timeout=5"
>     Conn.CommandTimeout = 5

Please set the ConnectionTimeout preperty not the CommandTimeout one.
It seems to work here.

>     Conn.ConnectionString = ConnStr
>     Conn.Open
>     Debug.Print "connected"
>     Conn.Close
>     Set Conn = Nothing
> End Sub
>
> It takes 15 seconds to throw an error at "Conn.Open, since the host is
> invalid.
>
> pyodbc has a Connection.timeout property, but it is for query timeout.
>
> -Mike