Re: PGPASSWORD and client tools

From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
Cc: <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PGPASSWORD and client tools
Date: 2004-08-19 11:21:29
Message-ID: 1221.24.211.141.25.1092914489.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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Magnus Hagander said:
>>>>How about an environment variable that points to a .pgpass type file.

>>
>>So let's go woth PGPASSFILE
>
> How about --pwfile on the commandline, the same way initdb does it?
>

Then you can't make it part of libpq - you would have to build it into every
program that needs it.

cheers

andrew

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