| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bradley McLean <brad(at)bradm(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Adam Osuchowski <adwol(at)polsl(dot)gliwice(dot)pl>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: psql: default base and password reading |
| Date: | 2001-10-12 18:17:37 |
| Message-ID: | 200110121817.f9CIHcp14442@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> The password reading patch may be useful, but I suggest that you
> reverse the meaning of the option, so that you do not change the
> current behavior. This would be a normal practice for backward
> compatibility.
I like the /dev/tty fix. I assumed we always read passwords from
/dev/tty and not stdin. I know of no other software that even allows
passwords from stdin. You usually have to use 'expect' for that very
purpose. I would not even supply an option to read it from stdin.
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