Re: PgAdmin forgets stored password on connection problem

Thank you, Dave!

2009/11/11 Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Eugene Lisitsky <lisitsky(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > Thank you for the great program and constant improvement!
> > I meet only several troubles usign it, one of them is:
> > If you have stored password in connections and a connection attempt was
> > failed (due to some network problems for example) then PgAdmin asks you
> to
> > prompt the password again on next connection attempt. What for?
>
> Because the connection messages are often intentionally vague, so we
> don't always know if it was a password problem, and therefore always
> prompt to be on the safe side.
>
Is it possible to check error and fail reason: network, connection refused,
password incorrect, no access to such DB?
Or at least as a workaround fill the form with old password?

> There's definitely room for improvement here though - patches are
> welcome if anyone wants to spend some time on it.
>
Unfortunately I'm not a C developer. But I can try :)

> --
> Dave Page
> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>

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Yours,
Eugene Lisitsky