Folks,
I've noticed that psql's \c function handles service= requests in a
way that I can only characterize as broken.
This came up in the context of connecting to a cloud hosting service
named after warriors or a river or something, whose default hostnames
are long, confusing, and easy to typo, so I suspect that service= may
come up more often going forward than it has until now.
For example, when I try to use
\c "service=foo"
It will correctly figure out which database I'm trying to connect to,
but fail to notice that it's on a different host, port, etc., and
hence fail to connect with a somewhat unhelpful error message.
I can think of a few approaches for fixing this:
0. Leave it broken.
1. Disable "service=" requests entirely in \c context, and error out if attempted.
2. Ensure that \c actually uses all of the available information.
Is there another one I missed?
If not, which of the approaches seems reasonable?
Cheers,
David.
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