On tis, 2011-09-06 at 17:12 +0200, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:27:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > It's not just the port, it's all the connection parameters --- > > do_connect relies on the PGconn object to remember those, and in this > > case there no longer is a PGconn object. > > > > We could have psql keep that information separately, but I'm not sure > > it's really worth the trouble. > > well, I think it's definitely worth the trouble. If I had datbaase > standing at 5432, it would connect to it, and then I could mistakenly > ran commands to wrong database. > this is clearly not a good thing.
Perhaps just prevent \connect without argument if the information is no longer available. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs