From 99081c63e40ac6e33c83406b0958aa9426193fea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:56:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Improve connectMaintenanceDatabase() error reporting.

The prior coding instructs the user to pick an alternative maintenance
database, but this is overly clever, since it obscures whatever the real
cause of the failure is.

Josh Kupershmidt
---
 src/bin/scripts/common.c | 12 +-----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/bin/scripts/common.c b/src/bin/scripts/common.c
index 1a5284e5264..5406a98c838 100644
--- a/src/bin/scripts/common.c
+++ b/src/bin/scripts/common.c
@@ -197,17 +197,7 @@ connectMaintenanceDatabase(const char *maintenance_db, const char *pghost,
 						   progname, true);
 	if (!conn)
 		conn = connectDatabase("template1", pghost, pgport, pguser,
-							   prompt_password, progname, true);
-
-	if (!conn)
-	{
-		fprintf(stderr, _("%s: could not connect to databases \"postgres\" or \"template1\"\n"
-						  "Please specify an alternative maintenance database.\n"),
-				progname);
-		fprintf(stderr, _("Try \"%s --help\" for more information.\n"),
-				progname);
-		exit(1);
-	}
+							   prompt_password, progname, false);
 
 	return conn;
 }
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