Issue with new save-as dialog for postgres

Phil Longstaff plongstaff at rogers.com
Mon May 18 22:29:57 EDT 2009


On May 18, 2009 10:27:45 pm Scott Peshak wrote:
> > I hate to reply to my own post, but I did a little more digging on this.
> > Gnucash is trying to connect to port 0 for some reason.  I confirmed
> > this with wireshark.  I tried adding :5432 to the host text field, but
> > this had no effect.
>
> Turns out port 0 is hard coded.
>
> I changed src/backend/dbi/gnc-backend-dbi.c line 438 from this:
>
> result = dbi_conn_set_option_numeric( be->conn, "port", 0 );
>
> to this:
>
> result = dbi_conn_set_option_numeric( be->conn, "port", 5432 );
>
> and things are working now.  Perhaps if the port is going to be hard
> coded it should at least be the default port for postgres?

I can't remember why I hard-coded it to 0.  I should probably add another field 
to the form so that you can specify port and set that default to 5432.

Phil


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