Re: duplicate connection failure messages

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-24T22:04:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > I assume you are suggesting to use our inet_net_ntop() even if the
> > > system has inet_ntop().
> > 
> > If you're going to have code to do the former, it doesn't seem to be
> > worth the trouble to also have code that does the latter ...
> 
> OK, we will not call inet_ntop() at all.  I moved the CIDR part of
> adt/inet_net_ntop.c into adt/inet_cidr_ntop.c, and moved the remaining
> "net" part to /port/inet_net_ntop.c.
> 
> I then changed all uses of inet_ntoa to use inet_net_ntop().  While this
> churn would perhaps not be warranted just to allow for better error
> messages, I found pg_getaddrinfo_all() being called from
> libpq::connectDBStart(), which makes it not thread-safe.  I am not
> excited about backpatching it but it is a threading bug.
> 
> The output is as expected:
> 
> 	$ psql -h localhost test
> 	psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
> 	        Is the server running on host "localhost" (127.0.0.1) and accepting
> 	        TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
> 	$ psql -h 127.0.0.1 test
> 	psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
> 	        Is the server running on host "127.0.0.1" and accepting
> 	        TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

Applied.

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