Re: strange error reporting

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:47 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Fair. One possibility, which'd take a few more cycles in libpq but
> likely not anything significant, is to replace "could not connect to ..."
> with "while connecting to ..." once we're past the connect() per se.

Yeah. I think this is kind of a client-side version of errcontext(),
except we don't really have that context formally, so we're trying to
figure out how to fake it in specific cases.

> > Maybe it would be better if it said:
>
> > connection to database at socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: FATAL:
> > database "rhaas" does not exist
>
> I'd be inclined to spell it "connection to server at ... failed",
> but that sort of wording is surely also possible.

"connection to server" rather than "connection to database" works for
me; in fact, I think I like it slightly better.

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