Re: Someone's broken psql's connection-failure error reporting

Tom Lane wrote:
> In CVS tip, I'm getting only an empty string from psql where it should
> print connection-failure messages.
>
> psql 7.3 does this:
>
> $ psql -p 5555
> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5555"?
> $
>
> CVS tip does this:
>
> $ psql -p 5555
> psql: $
>
> Have not dug to see if this is the fault of libpq or psql; but there's
> been a fair amount of hacking lately in libpq's connection handling ...

I just tried and got an error:

$ psql -p 5555
psql: could not create socket: No such file or directory

This is as of last night's CVS.

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