The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 6657
Logged by: Eric Diven
Email address: ediven@edsiohio.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.0.2
Operating system: Solaris
Description:=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20
First off, I should thank you all for the generally excellent documentation.
The plpgsql documentation has been particularly helpful, in large part
thanks to the relevant and well-explained examples.
That said, I would humbly suggest that the documentation for the
PQconnectdbParams function omits certain details. Notably, the function
will return NULL if you pass in a keywords array with an unrecognized
keyword.
I'll be the first to admit that passing in a keyword of "host_addr" instead
of "hostaddr" was kind of a dumb mistake on my part, but I'd argue that I'd
have figured it out a lot sooner if this were the documented behavior of
PQconnectdbParams for this case.
I realize I'm submitting this against an out of date version of postgresql,
and the the behavior might have changed since then, but since the
documentation covers all of 9.0.x, I would say that it still bears
updating.
Thanks,
Eric Diven
Example code follows:
#include <libpq-fe.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
PGconn *conn =3D NULL;
char *keys[] =3D { "host_addr", "user", "password", NULL };
char *values[] =3D { "192.168.0.42", "user", "password", NULL };
conn =3D PQconnectdbParams (keys, values, 0);
printf ("%p\n", conn);
return 0;
}
