I said:
> It seems odd that the FATAL error is reported after, rather than before,
> the reconnection attempt; and it's really not acceptable to lose the
> PANIC message entirely.
Also, both classes of messages seem to be dropped if psql is not running
interactively (probably since it exits without trying to reconnect).
If I run the regression tests against my hacked backend, the errors test
fails with:
--- 241,244 ---- -- Check that division-by-zero is properly caught. -- select 1/0;
! connection to server was lost
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regards, tom lane