Perhaps an option for the command:
\connect dbname /nofail
or something
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Matthew N. Dodd [mailto:winter@jurai.net]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 6:59 AM
>> To: Peter Eisentraut
>> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
>> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 1
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> > * when \connect fails, it now keeps the previous
>> connection (formerly
>> > aborted program)
>>
>> This is bad.
>>
>> Consider some process that connects to various DBs and does
>> stuff like
>> drop foo.
>>
>> If connect fails assume that the user no longer wanted to be
>> connected to
>> the old connection.
>>
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