Re: psql doesn't reuse -p after backend fail

From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql doesn't reuse -p after backend fail
Date: 2011-09-06 15:12:54
Message-ID: 20110906151253.GA1209@depesz.com
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:27:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> It's not just the port, it's all the connection parameters ---
> do_connect relies on the PGconn object to remember those, and in this
> case there no longer is a PGconn object.
>
> We could have psql keep that information separately, but I'm not sure
> it's really worth the trouble.

well, I think it's definitely worth the trouble. If I had datbaase
standing at 5432, it would connect to it, and then I could mistakenly
ran commands to wrong database.
this is clearly not a good thing.

depesz

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