Re: Migrating from 8.2 to 9.1 : invalid port number

Alberto Zanon <alberto.zanon@edistar.com> writes:
> I agree with you about the concept of "port number". I only wanted to know if it is a new behavior of Postgresql 9.1.


More like 9.0, according to our commit logs:

Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Branch: master Release: REL9_0_BR [61be11ff0] 2009-09-27 03:43:10 +0000

    Make libpq reject non-numeric and out-of-range port numbers with a suitable
    error message, rather than blundering on and failing with something opaque.

    Sam Mason

            regards, tom lane