Re: BUG #3059: psql to 'postgres' shortcut

Dear Team,

I checked the shortcut and was unable to find any note about "close on exit=
" or anything like that.  The .bat method sounds wonderful, and I would app=
reciate such a change to make the product a little more responsive.

Thank you for your consideration and time,

Raymond Naseef


P.S. I apologize if my email were not being sent properly.  I will pay clos=
e attention to this going forward.


----- Original Message ----
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Phil Frost <phil@macprofessionals.com>; Raymond Naseef <raymondnaseef@y=
ahoo.com>; pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:08:38 PM
Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #3059: psql to 'postgres' shortcut


Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:06:17AM -0500, Phil Frost wrote:
> > Hrm...I haven't used windows for a while now, but isn't there an=20=20
> > option on all shortcuts to command-line programs to make the shell=20=
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> > pause on exit? It is something like, right click on shortcut, select=20=
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> > 'properties', uncheck 'close shell on exit'. It would seem this would=
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> > solve the problem of not being able to see errors, while also not=20=20
> > adding a pause for programs which execute psql.bat directly.
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> Yes, that is exactly the point -it would be very annoying in all other
> cases, as Bruce pointed out.
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> I guess another option would be to add a commandline option to psql to
> pause on error, but I don't think that's going to fly ;-)

I just ran a test on Unix and found psql exits with '2' if the password
fails.  In fact, looking at the psql sources I see:
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    #ifndef EXIT_SUCCESS
    #define EXIT_SUCCESS 0
    #endif
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    #ifndef EXIT_FAILURE
    #define EXIT_FAILURE 1
    #endif
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    #define EXIT_BADCONN 2
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    #define EXIT_USER 3

Notice EXIT_BADCONN.  So, what if we call psql from a batch file, and
check for a '2' exit status, and then issue a pause for only that case?

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