On 10/21/20 18:59, Tom Lane wrote: > I think the reason we've not had complaints about this is that the > situation normally doesn't arise in interactive sessions (since we > won't release the old connection voluntarily), while scripts are > likely not designed to cope with connection losses anyway. These > facts militate against spending a whole lot of effort on a fix, > but still we ought to reduce the silliness factor. What I propose > is to complain if we have no o_conn *and* we are asked to re-use > parameters from it. Otherwise, it's fine.
I've been getting around it just by saying \c "connstring" . . . which works. It gives me a tiny thrill every time I do it, like I'm getting away with something. Which is why I haven't been complaining. I suppose I wouldn't complain if it were fixed, either. Regards, -Chap
