Re: How to determine failed connection attempt due to invalid authorization (libpq)?

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to determine failed connection attempt due to invalid authorization (libpq)?
Date: 2010-10-19 06:36:07
Message-ID: 20101019063606.GH7345@fetter.org
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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 07:26:32AM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:18:25AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:05 AM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:03:55AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > >> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > >> > I've asked pgsql-general.
> > >> > Unfortunately it seems that there is no better way to do it except
> > >> > parsing PQerrorMessage(). Sadly.
> > >>
> > >> Yeah, doesn't look like it.  A quick glance at the code reveals that a
> > >> PGresult can store individual error fields but a PGconn can store only
> > >> a message.   :-(
> > >
> > > Does this seem worth patching for 9.1?
> >
> > Please feel free to submit a patch if you have an idea how to solve it.
>
> Will look that over this evening and submit an idea for a patch :)

I'm pretty slammed by some other commitments at the moment. Probably
won't get a chance to do this until at least this weekend.

Cheers,
David.
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