On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 05:51, Ashesh Vashi <ashesh.va...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On of my college (Sujeet) has found a way to reproduce the same behaviour. > 1. Installed PG 9.0 on Win XP SP3 > 2. Stop the Postgresql-9.0 service from service manager console > 3. Create pgpass.conf in postgres (service account) user's profile with an > incorrect password deliberately. > (Refer: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html) > 4. Now start the postgresql-9.0 service, it will return an error and the > status > shows stopped > 5. However i could connect to the psql shell and get the prompt which means > the server is running.
I took a quick look at the code, and from what I can tell this is because PQconnectionNeedsPassword() always returns false if a pgpass.conf has been used. There is no handling the case where pgpass is used, but has an incorrect password. Does anybody recall the specific reason for this? Do we need a way for pg_ctl to figure this out, or do we need to change it in PQconnecitonNeedsPassword()? -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers