I wrote: > It looks like the immediate problem can be resolved by just adding > a check for conn->pghost not being NULL,
... scratch that. There's another problem here, which is that this code should not be looking at conn->pghost AT ALL. That will do the wrong thing with a multi-element host list. The right thing to be looking at is conn->connhost[conn->whichhost].host --- with a test to make sure it's not NULL or an empty string. (I didn't stop to study this code close enough to see if it'll ignore an empty string without help.) regards, tom lane