</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

CONNECTION_AWAITING_RESPONSE: Waiting for a response from thebackend.

CONNECTION_AWAITING_RESPONSE: Waiting for a response from thepostmaster.

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

CONNECTION_AUTH_RESPONSE: Got an authentication response; about to deal

with it.

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

CONNECTION_ERROR_RESPONSE: Got an error response; about to deal with it.

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>

CONNECTION_AUTH_OK: Received authentication; waiting for ReadyForQuery etc.

CONNECTION_AUTH_OK: Received authentication; waiting for backend startup.

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

</para>

<para>

Note that if PQconnectStart returns a non-NULL pointer, you must call

PQfinishupon that,when you are finished with it, in order to dispose of

PQfinish when you are finished with it, in order to dispose of

the structure and any associated memory blocks. This must be done even if a

call to PQconnectStart or PQconnectPoll failed.

</para>