Re: an efficient way of checking if the connection to a db

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> I think you've got a problem on the driver side.
> Here, strace'ing a program doing PQexec(conn, "") shows:
>
> 17:53:33.677241 send(3, "Q\0\0\0\5\0", 6, 0) = 6
> ...
> 17:53:33.678085 recv(3, "I\0\0\0\4Z\0\0\0\5I", 16384, 0) = 11
>
> which looks like EmptyQueryResponse followed by ReadyForQuery to me.

This was indeed a driver problem.  With V2 protocol EmptyQuery is followed
by a single null byte, but the driver was expecting a four byte message
length, like the V3 protocol sends.

Fixed in 8.0, 8.1, and head.

Kris Jurka