> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> writes:
> > It seems between 8.4 and CVS HEAD backend responses 'E' packet
> > (error/fatal message) if a startup packet sent with wrong user and/or
> > database. Before backend responses 'R' packet first followd by 'E'
> > packet.
>
> > Does anybody know why this change made?
>
> It's a side effect of the changes made to get rid of the flat
> authorization files. Bad database is now reported before authentication
> instead of after. I wouldn't have thought bad user per se would be
> reported before auth, though --- you sure about that one?
No. Just a logical conjecture.
So the change was made not to fix the bug(IMO).
I now understand that those behavior could be changed randomly release
to relase in unpredictable way.
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