On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:32:34PM -0500, John DeSoi wrote: > Is there a way to control how long psql waits for a connection? If the > host IP address is mistyped, psql (8.0b4) hangs for over a minute on OS > X.
Try setting the PGCONNECT_TIMEOUT environment variable: env PGCONNECT_TIMEOUT=5 psql -h bogushost If you always want to use a particular timeout then set the environment variable in your shell's startup script. -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
