Re: First patch proposal

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:29 +0200, Alastair Turner wrote:

> I am proposing altering psql to raise certain errors and exit before
> prompting for a password. These errors would have to be on items which
> didn't leak any information, my current list is:
>  - Does the input file (-f) exist and is it readable
>  - Do paths to the output files ( -o and -l) exist and are they writable
>  - Is the host/socket listening (-h)
> 

I think these are pretty good. The last one might not be as easy as you
think. 

Joshua D. Drake

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