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Basically, we want to distinguish all cases where the connection was not made from those where it was. A convenient proxy for this is to see if we got a message with a SQLSTATE code back from the postmaster. This presumes that the postmaster will always send us a SQLSTATE in a failure message, which is true for 7.4 and later postmasters in every case except fork failure. (We could possibly complicate the postmaster code to do something about that, but it seems not worth the trouble, especially since pg_ctl's response for that case should be to keep waiting anyway.) If we did get a SQLSTATE from the postmaster, there are basically only two cases, as per last week's discussion: ERRCODE_CANNOT_CONNECT_NOW and everything else. Any other error code implies that the postmaster is in principle willing to accept connections, it just didn't like or couldn't handle this particular request. We want to make a special case for ERRCODE_CANNOT_CONNECT_NOW so that "pg_ctl start -w" knows it should keep waiting. In passing, pick names for the enum constants that are a tad less likely to present collision hazards in future.
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