From: | Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Better auth errors from libpq |
Date: | 2008-09-12 03:10:45 |
Message-ID: | 20080911201045.2789e4f7@jd-laptop |
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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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