Re: [PATCHES] default database creation with initdb

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