Re: Re: [BUGS] BUG #5650: Postgres service showing as stopped when in fact it is running

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 05:51, Ashesh Vashi
> <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > On of my college (Sujeet) has found a way to reproduce the same behaviour.
> > 1. Installed PG 9.0 on Win XP SP3
> > 2. Stop the Postgresql-9.0 service from service manager console
> > 3. Create pgpass.conf in postgres (service account) user's profile with an
> > incorrect password deliberately.
> > (Refer: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html)
> > 4. Now start the postgresql-9.0 service, it will return an error and the
> > status
> > ?? shows stopped
> > 5. However i could connect to the psql shell and get the prompt which means
> > ??? the server is running.
>
> I took a quick look at the code, and from what I can tell this is
> because PQconnectionNeedsPassword() always returns false if a
> pgpass.conf has been used. There is no handling the case where pgpass
> is used, but has an incorrect password.
>
> Does anybody recall the specific reason for this? Do we need a way for
> pg_ctl to figure this out, or do we need to change it in
> PQconnecitonNeedsPassword()?

I was not able to reproduce this failure on my BSD system using GIT
head:

$ psql test
psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"
password retrieved from file "/u/postgres/.pgpass"

$ pg_ctl status
pg_ctl: server is running (PID: 710)
/usr/var/local/pgsql/bin/postgres "-i"

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