Re: Better auth errors from libpq

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:59:40 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> > psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
> > HINT: Is pg_hba.conf set properly on the server?
>
> Seems pretty useless. What does "set properly" mean? There isn't
> even any good reason to think that the solution to most auth failures
> is to change pg_hba.conf, so I'd bet that this hint is wrong far more
> often than it's right.

I think something like:

psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
HINT: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/client-authentication.html

Would be nice. Heck in most modern terminals the HINT would be
clickable too :)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
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