diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml index 18199b06ce9..c253c7c61c9 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml @@ -1100,7 +1100,11 @@ PGPing PQpingParams(const char **keywords, const char **values, int expand_dbnam <term><literal>PQPING_NO_RESPONSE</literal></term> <listitem> <para> - The server could not be contacted. + The server could not be contacted. This might indicate that the + server is not running, or that there is something wrong with the + given connection parameters (for example, wrong port number), or + that there is a network connectivity problem (for example, a + firewall blocking the connection request). </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -1110,8 +1114,8 @@ PGPing PQpingParams(const char **keywords, const char **values, int expand_dbnam <listitem> <para> No attempt was made to contact the server, because the supplied - parameters were incorrect or there was some client-side problem - (for example, out of memory). + parameters were obviously incorrect or there was some client-side + problem (for example, out of memory). </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |