Re: Overly specific error message?

On Thu, 30 May 2019 at 18:16, Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Using PG 10.7 and JDBC org.postgresql:postgresql:42.1.4
>
> I had only a single slash between postgresql: and the host
>
> jdbc:postgresql:/some.host.name:5432
>
> I got
>
> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: password authentication failed
> for user "some-name"
>
> Naturally I tested and re-tested connecting manually as that user and with
> the supplied password. Eventually of course I started looking around a
> little more thoroughly...
>
> I wonder if the message needs to be specifically about password
> authentication?
>

Interesting.

My guess it it parsed the URL and did *something* and presented it to the
server

Off the top of my head parsing should be fixed

Dave Cramer

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