Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:
> We could just log (already done inside pq_*, IIRC) and continue, instead
> of erroring out. It's just the way it is because I personally prefer
> misconfigurations to break loudly, so you have to fix them ;-)
Well, dropping the connection with no message (except in the postmaster
log, which is equivalent to /dev/null for way too many people) isn't
my idea of how to complain "loudly". It just makes the software look
broken.
I'm not sure if we can issue a notice that will be seen on the client
side at this point in the startup cycle. I seem to recall the protocol
document advising against sending NOTICEs during the authentication
cycle. So the postmaster-log message may be the best we can do ...
but I don't think we should drop the connection.
regards, tom lane
