Re: psql \conninfo command (was: Patch: psql \whoami option) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: psql \conninfo command (was: Patch: psql \whoami option)
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Msg-id AANLkTil_Rh0i63qbLgXWrx7sov2uoNqHbDTbSOES6fTO@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: psql \conninfo command (was: Patch: psql \whoami option)  (David Christensen <david@endpoint.com>)
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:41 PM, David Christensen <david@endpoint.com> wrote:
>> I took a look at this patch.  One problem is that it doesn't handle
>> the case where there is no database connection (for example, shut down
>> the database with pg_ctl, then do select 1, then do \conninfo).  I've
>> fixed that in the attached version.
>
> Thanks, I hadn't considered that case.

For some reason, I end up crashing a lot of databases during
development (must be my lousy coding).  So I've had occasion to run
across this, ahem, a few times...

> +1 from me; I don't care what color the bikeshed is, as long as it gets the point across, which this does, and is
consistentto boot. 

Great, committed that way.

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Robert Haas
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