On 19/07/18 17:07, Robert Haas wrote:
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.
Seems that I broke this shortly afterwards, by commit 7b02ba62e9.
Pushed, thanks!
- Heikki
