Re: Can we improve this error message?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can we improve this error message?
Date: 2016-04-26 02:40:52
Message-ID: 6644.1461638452@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> writes:
> On 04/17/2016 09:28 PM, Bill Moran wrote:
>> What I believe is happening, is that the pg connection libs
>> first try to connect via ssl and get a password failed error,
>> then fallback to trying to connect without ssl, and get a "no
>> pg_hba.conf entry" error. The problem is that the second error
>> masks the first one, hiding the real cause of the connection
>> failure, and causing a lot of confusion.

> I got both the messages when I tried this with psql. What did you do
> when you only got the second message?

Maybe Bill tried it with a rather old libpq? This rings a bell
as being something we fixed awhile back.

regards, tom lane

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