The patch wasn't ignored. It is just that I never got to applying it yet.
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David Fetter wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 12:15:08PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Markus Bertheau" <mbertheau.pg@googlemail.com> writes:
> > > Why is it trying to use 5432? Am I missing something? Is that the
> > > expected behaviour?
> >
> > > Michael Fuhr hinted that
> > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-02/msg00139.php
> > > may be the cause of that.
> >
> > Confirmed here: \c drops the previous port connection setting (and
> > the host too according to my testing). This is clearly a bug --- at
> > least, there was no hint in the patch description that it would
> > change the behavior of previously-accepted cases, and it would have
> > had to withstand much more careful review if that were stated to be
> > the case.
>
> I believe that this patch fixes the problem. Should there be
> something in the regression tests for this?
>
> Cheers,
> D
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