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Re: Crash on attempt to connect to nonstarted server

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> — 2010-12-18T16:26:39Z

bruce wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > I get a crash on win32 when connecting to a server that's not started.
> > In fe-connect.c, we have:
> > 
> > 		display_host_addr = (conn->pghostaddr == NULL) &&
> > 			(strcmp(conn->pghost, host_addr) != 0);
> > 
> > In my case, conn->pghost is NULL at this point, as is
> > conn->pghostaddr. Thus, it crashes in strcmp().
> 
> I have researched this with Magnus, and was able to reproduce the
> failure.  It happens only on Win32 because that is missing unix-domain
> sockets so "" maps to localhost, which is an IP address.  I have applied
> the attached patch.  The new output is:
> 
> 	$ psql test
> 	psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
>         Is the server running on host "???" and accepting
>         TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
> 
> Note the "???".  This happens because the mapping of "" to localhost
> happens below the libpq library variable level.

I made a mistake in the fix from yesterday.  I added code to test for
NULL, but in fact what I should have done was to allow a NULL hostname
to trigger the printing of the IP address because it will never match an
IP number.

The attached applied, patch fixes this, and uses the same logic as in
connectDBStart() to print 'localhost' for connection failures.  I also
added code to use DefaultHost consistently in that file.  With the patch
the new Win32 output for a down server is:

	$ pql 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 "" 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?

I am amazed we were printing "???" all these years on this very popular
platform.

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