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Re: strange error reporting

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-01-20T18:54:43Z
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2021-Jan-20, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I figured it was something like that. I don't know whether the right
>> thing is to use something like PQdb() to get the correct database
>> name, or whether we should go with Tom's suggestion and omit that
>> detail altogether, but I think showing the empty string when the user
>> relied on the default is too confusing.

> Well, the patch seems small enough, and I don't think it'll be in any
> way helpful to omit that detail.

I'm +1 for applying and back-patching that.  I still think we might
want to just drop the phrase altogether in HEAD, but we wouldn't do
that in the back branches, and the message is surely misleading as-is.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. pgbench: Remove dead code

  2. Report the true database name on connection errors

  3. Avoid redundantly prefixing PQerrorMessage for a connection failure.

  4. Improve new wording of libpq's connection failure messages.