May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
You need to specify the following parameters to connect to PostgreSQL:
To connect, there must be a PostgreSQL server running on host, listening to port number port. On that server, a database named dbname and a user named user must also exist. The host must explicitly allow connections from your client (this is explained in the next recipe), and you must also pass authentication using the method the server specifies; for example, specifying a password won't work if the server has requested a different form of authentication.
Almost all PostgreSQL interfaces use the libpq interface library. When using libpq, most of the connection ...