Re: psql doesn't reuse -p after backend fail

On tis, 2011-09-06 at 17:12 +0200, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:27:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > It's not just the port, it's all the connection parameters ---
> > do_connect relies on the PGconn object to remember those, and in this
> > case there no longer is a PGconn object.
> >
> > We could have psql keep that information separately, but I'm not sure
> > it's really worth the trouble.
>
> well, I think it's definitely worth the trouble. If I had datbaase
> standing at 5432, it would connect to it, and then I could mistakenly
> ran commands to wrong database.
> this is clearly not a good thing.

Perhaps just prevent \connect without argument if the information is no
longer available.