Re: Thoughts on pg_hba.conf rejection

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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

Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2010-04-15T02:55:31Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> OK, how about "connection not authorized by pg_hba.conf"?
>
> This is still not especially helpful for novice DBAs.  We want to point
> them in the direction that they need to add an entry to pg_hba.conf,
> which is 99% likely to be what's wanted.  The current wording provides
> that hint; vague statements like the above don't.

*scratches head*

So you'd prefer a message that is sometimes flat-out wrong over a
message that is correct but less informative in the common case?  I
guess that could be right call, but it's not what I'd pick.

...Robert