David Fetter wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:30:12PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
The only thing I would say here is that you point the URL to
current which will be wrong in one release. Perhaps something
that pulls the pgversion macro?
We
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:30:12PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >
> >>> The only thing I would say here is that you point the URL to
> >>> current which will be wrong in one release. Perhaps something
> >>> that pulls the pgversion macro?
>
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
>>> The only thing I would say here is that you point the URL to current
>>> which will be wrong in one release. Perhaps something that pulls the
>>> pgversion macro?
>>
>> We don't put URLs in error messages. The hint needs to be a real sent
Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
The only thing I would say here is that you point the URL to current
which will be wrong in one release. Perhaps something that pulls the
pgversion macro?
We don't put URLs in error messages. The hint needs to be a real sentence.
Which is exactly why its the first
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:53:39AM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
>
> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Joshua Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> I think something like:
> >
> >> psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
> >> HINT: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/stat
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:08:56AM +0200, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Hi,
>
> David Fetter wrote:
>> I'm all for something, and that's a much better something. What we
>> have now--nothing--actively distresses newbies for no good reason.
>>
>> I don't know how many people we've lost right at that
Hi,
David Fetter wrote:
I'm all for something, and that's a much better something. What we
have now--nothing--actively distresses newbies for no good reason.
I don't know how many people we've lost right at that point, but the
number has to be high, as most people don't just hop into IRC with
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joshua Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I think something like:
>
>> psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
>> HINT: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/client-authentication.html
>
>> Would be nice.
...
>
> Or to put it even mor
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
David Fetter wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:28:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Joshua Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I think something like:
psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
HINT:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/client-authentication
David Fetter wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:28:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Joshua Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I think something like:
psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
HINT: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/client-authentication.html
Would be nice.
Do
Tom Lane wrote:
Joshua Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I think something like:
psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
HINT: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/client-authentication.html
Would be nice.
Do you really think that's helpful in the typical case wher
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:28:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Joshua Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I think something like:
>
> > psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
> > HINT: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/client-authentication.html
>
> > Would be nice.
>
>
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:28:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Joshua Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I think something like:
>
> > psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
> > HINT: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/client-authentication.html
>
> > Would be nice.
>
>
Joshua Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think something like:
> psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
> HINT: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/client-authentication.html
> Would be nice.
Do you really think that's helpful in the typical case where someone
fat-fi
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:10:45PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:59:40 -0400
> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
> > > HINT: Is pg_hba.conf set properly on the server?
> >
> > Seems pretty useles
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:59:40 -0400
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
> > HINT: Is pg_hba.conf set properly on the server?
>
> Seems pretty useless. What does "set properly" mean? There isn't
> even any good reason to think
David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This isn't exactly informative to newbies, so I'm proposing a patch
> like that attached for such failures. Instead of seeing that
> mysterious message, they'd get something like this:
> psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
>
Folks,
Far and away the most common question we get in IRC includes phrases
like:
psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
This isn't exactly informative to newbies, so I'm proposing a patch
like that attached for such failures. Instead of seeing that
mysterious message, th
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