Re: PQdb() fails with coredump when PQconnectDB() passed invalid parameter. - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> PQdb() is returning NULL, which causes fprintf() to dump core.

It is actually documented that a failed connection might return NULL for
this, so the example code is wrong.  I've corrected the examples to not
assume PQdb can be used on a failed connection.

pg_dump was doing it wrong too :-(

            regards, tom lane