Re: PostGres Doubt - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: PostGres Doubt
Date
Msg-id 200206140245.g5E2jP407614@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: PostGres Doubt  (David Ford <david+cert@blue-labs.org>)
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David Ford wrote:
> I'm using md5 in pg_hba.conf.  That is the method, no?
> 
> I'm writing a milter application which instantiates a private resource 
> for each thread upon thread startup.  I have priv->conn which I 
> establish as priv->conn=PQconnectdb(connstr), connstr is const char 
> *connstr="host=10.0.0.5 dbname=bmilter user=username password=password";
> 
> It segfaults depending on it's mood but it tends to happen about 50-70% 
> of the time.  I switched to PQsetdbLogin() which has worked perfectly. 
>  I don't really want to use that however, I would much prefer using my 
> connstr.

Wow, I am confused.  md5 should be fine.  Certainly sounds like there is
a thread problem with PQconnectdb().  Are you using 7.2.X?

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