On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@iki.fi> wrote: > Give a better error message on invalid hostaddr option. > > If you accidentally pass a host name in the hostaddr option, e.g. > hostaddr=localhost, you get an error like: > > psql: could not translate host name "localhost" to address: Name or service > not known > > That's a bit confusing, because it implies that we tried to look up > "localhost" in DNS, but it failed. To make it more clear that we tried to > parse "localhost" as a numeric network address, change the message to: > > psql: could not parse network address "localhost": Name or service not known
This commit doesn't seem to deliver the behavior described in the commit message. Instead, I get: [rhaas pgsql]$ psql 'hostaddr=localhost' psql: could not parse network address "(null)": nodename nor servname provided, or not known Proposed patch attached. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
fix-could-not-parse-messsage-v1.patch
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