On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 07:38:52PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 09:14:41AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I could go along with just dropping the last sentence ("This probably...")
> >> if the last error we got was FATAL level.  I don't find "unexpectedly"
> >> to be problematic here: from the point of view of psql, and probably
> >> of its user, the shutdown *was* unexpected.
> 
> > I looked at this thread from 2016 and I think the problem is the
> > "abnormally" word, since if the server was shutdown by the administrator
> > (most likely), it isn't abnormal.  Here is a patch to remove
> > "abnormally".
> 
> I do not think this is an improvement.  The places you are changing
> are reacting to a connection closure.  *If* we had previously gotten a
> "FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command" message,
> then yeah the connection closure is expected; but if not, it isn't.
> Your patch adds no check for that.  (As I remarked in 2016, we could
> probably condition this on the elevel being FATAL, rather than
> checking for specific error messages.)

Yes, you are correct.  Here is a patch that implements the FATAL test,
though I am not sure I have the logic correct or backwards, and I don't
know how to test this.  Thanks.

-- 
  Bruce Momjian  <br...@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
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diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-misc.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-misc.c
index 660cdec93c..c541fd8b02 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-misc.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-misc.c
@@ -749,8 +749,10 @@ retry4:
 	 */
 definitelyEOF:
 	libpq_append_conn_error(conn, "server closed the connection unexpectedly\n"
-							"\tThis probably means the server terminated abnormally\n"
-							"\tbefore or while processing the request.");
+							"\tThis probably means the server terminated%s\n"
+							"\tbefore or while processing the request.",
+							conn->result->resultStatus == PGRES_FATAL_ERROR ?
+							"" : "abnormally");
 
 	/* Come here if lower-level code already set a suitable errorMessage */
 definitelyFailed:
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure-openssl.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure-openssl.c
index f1192d28f2..6c21f91817 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure-openssl.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure-openssl.c
@@ -206,8 +206,10 @@ rloop:
 				if (result_errno == EPIPE ||
 					result_errno == ECONNRESET)
 					libpq_append_conn_error(conn, "server closed the connection unexpectedly\n"
-											"\tThis probably means the server terminated abnormally\n"
-											"\tbefore or while processing the request.");
+											  "\tThis probably means the server terminated%s\n"
+											  "\tbefore or while processing the request.",
+											  conn->result->resultStatus == PGRES_FATAL_ERROR ?
+											  "" : "abnormally");
 				else
 					libpq_append_conn_error(conn, "SSL SYSCALL error: %s",
 											SOCK_STRERROR(result_errno,
@@ -306,8 +308,10 @@ pgtls_write(PGconn *conn, const void *ptr, size_t len)
 				result_errno = SOCK_ERRNO;
 				if (result_errno == EPIPE || result_errno == ECONNRESET)
 					libpq_append_conn_error(conn, "server closed the connection unexpectedly\n"
-											"\tThis probably means the server terminated abnormally\n"
-											"\tbefore or while processing the request.");
+											  "\tThis probably means the server terminated%s\n"
+											  "\tbefore or while processing the request.",
+											  conn->result->resultStatus == PGRES_FATAL_ERROR ?
+											  "" : "abnormally");
 				else
 					libpq_append_conn_error(conn, "SSL SYSCALL error: %s",
 											SOCK_STRERROR(result_errno,
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure.c
index bd72a87bbb..5e7136195a 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure.c
@@ -233,8 +233,10 @@ pqsecure_raw_read(PGconn *conn, void *ptr, size_t len)
 			case EPIPE:
 			case ECONNRESET:
 				libpq_append_conn_error(conn, "server closed the connection unexpectedly\n"
-										"\tThis probably means the server terminated abnormally\n"
-										"\tbefore or while processing the request.");
+										"\tThis probably means the server terminated%s\n"
+										"\tbefore or while processing the request.",
+										conn->result->resultStatus == PGRES_FATAL_ERROR ?
+										"" : "abnormally");
 				break;
 
 			default:
@@ -395,8 +397,11 @@ retry_masked:
 				/* (strdup failure is OK, we'll cope later) */
 				snprintf(msgbuf, sizeof(msgbuf),
 						 libpq_gettext("server closed the connection unexpectedly\n"
-									   "\tThis probably means the server terminated abnormally\n"
-									   "\tbefore or while processing the request."));
+									   "\tThis probably means the server terminated%s\n"
+									   "\tbefore or while processing the request."),
+										conn->result->resultStatus == PGRES_FATAL_ERROR ?
+										"" : "abnormally");
+
 				/* keep newline out of translated string */
 				strlcat(msgbuf, "\n", sizeof(msgbuf));
 				conn->write_err_msg = strdup(msgbuf);

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