Re: Optional postgres database not so optional in 8.1

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 05:29 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> It does seem a bit inconsistent that psql wouldn't connect to the
> specified database in order to do -l, if one is specified.
> Anyone want to look and see if it's easy to change?

It also breaks the ability to psql -l against older installations: e.g. this
is psql 8.1 trying to list databases on a 8.0.3 DB server:

$ psql -l -hdev2 -dtemplate1
psql: FATAL: database "postgres" does not exist

I'm told we never promise to make \l and \d work across client/server
versions, but if this is related, it'd be nice if the fix made this work
again too.

Regards, Philip.
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