Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> If it's a server-side failure it should have a SQLSTATE code.
> Specifically, I'm talking about
> "no pg_hba.conf entry for ....",
ERRCODE_INVALID_AUTHORIZATION_SPECIFICATION
> "Ident authentication failed.." (both server sice)
Ditto. Do you need to know the difference? What exactly would client
code do differently for these two cases?
> and "Is the server running on host ..." from libpq
libpq doesn't currently assign SQLSTATEs to internally detected errors
... someday someone should fix that.
regards, tom lane