Re: Can we improve this error message?

On Apr 26, 2016 4:41 AM, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Yeah, libpq used to keep just one error message. Iirc, this was changed
quite long ago though, but I guess if it's a really old libpq..

/Magnus