Re: pg_dump should use current_database() instead of PQdb()

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump should use current_database() instead of PQdb()
Date: 2018-05-04 13:37:03
Message-ID: 39662334-ec23-d762-4711-ae5e253b119a@2ndquadrant.com
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On 4/10/18 12:40, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> A report from a pgbouncer user revealed that running pg_dump -C/--create
> does not work through a connection proxy if the virtual database name on
> the proxy does not match the real database name on the database server.
> That's because pg_dump looks up the database to be dumped using the
> information from PQdb(). It should be using current_database() instead.
> (The code was quite likely written before current_database() was
> available (PG 7.3)).
>
> See attached patch.

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