Folks, I've noticed that psql's \c function handles service= requests in a way that I can only characterize as broken.
This came up in the context of connecting to a cloud hosting service named after warriors or a river or something, whose default hostnames are long, confusing, and easy to typo, so I suspect that service= may come up more often going forward than it has until now. For example, when I try to use \c "service=foo" It will correctly figure out which database I'm trying to connect to, but fail to notice that it's on a different host, port, etc., and hence fail to connect with a somewhat unhelpful error message. I can think of a few approaches for fixing this: 0. Leave it broken. 1. Disable "service=" requests entirely in \c context, and error out if attempted. 2. Ensure that \c actually uses all of the available information. Is there another one I missed? If not, which of the approaches seems reasonable? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
