Re: psql \c error

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:19:51PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Philip Yarra <philip@utiba.com> writes:
> > Hi folks, I've found that CVS HEAD psql's \c doesn't quite behave as
> > expected 
> 
> Yeah, there were complaints about this already.  I think the problem was
> introduced by this patch:

I sent one patch to fix this, which went ignored, and Volkan Yazici
sent another one, to which the same thing happened.

Cheers,
D
> 
> 2006-02-11 21:54  momjian
> 
>     * doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml, src/bin/psql/command.c,
>     src/bin/psql/help.c: Please find enclosed a patch that lets you use
>     \c to connect (optionally) to a new host and port without exiting
>     psql.  This eliminates, IMHO, a surprise in that you can now
>     connect to PostgreSQL on a differnt machine from the one where you
>     started your session. This should help people who use psql as an
>     administrative tool.
>     
>     David Fetter
> 
> The patch seems not to behave very reasonably with respect to preserving
> prior values for the newly-changeable connection parameters.  I haven't
> got time to look into it myself right now though --- do you want to?
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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