| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #16486: Prompted password is ignored when password specified in connection string |
| Date: | 2020-06-08 22:27:06 |
| Message-ID: | 2110959.1591655226@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 2:36 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> The entire point of the -W switch is that it prompts whether or not
>> the password is going to be used for anything.
> A more intuitive interpretation of -W is that it prompts for a password,
> regardless of valid values being provided by other configuration, and uses
> that password exclusively to attempt to connect to the server.
> The documentation doesn't actually say which one of those two
> interpretations is correct.
Hmm ... I had thought that the docs explained -W in more or less the same
way I did above, but I see that (at least on the psql page) things are
indeed pretty vague. I'll see about improving that.
regards, tom lane
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