On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 at 5:25 pm, hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 08:49:11AM +1100, Neha Khatri wrote: > I had the question specific to above two cases, when the database name is > not provided. There is no surety of having a database name same as the user > name. Then why assume the database name and try to connect to it. Is it due > to legacy reason or due to some common database naming practice?
so what would you prefer to do, as psql, in such case? report error unconditionally? after all - if user didn't provide db name, and you don't want to assume db name that is the same as user name - then you don't know what db to connect
Yes, so psql should say "Not sure which database to connect to. Please specify a valid database name using -d option".
For backwards compatibility, psql can still attempt to connect to db with name same as the username, but the error message could be more like providing the information, what can be done next.
