Re: [PATCHES] default database creation with initdb

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] default database creation with initdb
Date: 2005-06-20 14:48:07
Message-ID: 6974.1119278887@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> If it's a server-side failure it should have a SQLSTATE code.

> Specifically, I'm talking about

> "no pg_hba.conf entry for ....",

ERRCODE_INVALID_AUTHORIZATION_SPECIFICATION

> "Ident authentication failed.." (both server sice)

Ditto. Do you need to know the difference? What exactly would client
code do differently for these two cases?

> and "Is the server running on host ..." from libpq

libpq doesn't currently assign SQLSTATEs to internally detected errors
... someday someone should fix that.

regards, tom lane

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