> Ok, where's a "system dependent hack" :)

> It seems that win9x doesn't have the "netmsg.dll" so it defaults to "normal"
> FormatMessage.
> I wonder if one could load wsock32.dll or winsock.dll on those systems
> instead of netmsg.dll.
>
> Mikhail, could you please test this code on your nt4 system?
> Could someone else test this code on a win98/95 system?
>
> It works on win2k over here.

It works on win2k here too but not on win98/95 or winNT.
Anyway, attached is the patch which uses Magnus's my_sock_strerror
function (renamed to winsock_strerror). The only difference is that
I put the code to load and unload netmsg.dll in the libpqdll.c
(is this OK Magnus?).

Mikhail Terekhov

src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2001, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $Id: libpq-fe.h,v 1.71 2001/03/22 04:01:27 momjian Exp $
+ * $Id: libpq-fe.h,v 1.72 2001/08/21 20:39:54 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -21,10 +21,21 @@ extern		"C"
 #endif
 
 #include <stdio.h>
+
+#ifdef WIN32
+    #define SOCK_ERRNO (WSAGetLastError ())
+	#define SOCK_STRERROR winsock_strerror
+#else
+    #define SOCK_ERRNO errno
+	#define SOCK_STRERROR strerror
+#endif
+
+
 /* postgres_ext.h defines the backend's externally visible types,
  * such as Oid.
  */
 #include "postgres_ext.h"
+
 #ifdef USE_SSL
 #include <openssl/ssl.h>
 #endif