Olivier PRENANT <ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr> writes:
> It seems that connection from php pg_connect not supplying a password
> lives the process for a "certain ammount of time" running, then postmaster
> just hangs.
That's hard to believe. In 7.2 or later, the backend should give up and
close the connection and exit if the client doesn't finish the
authentication handshake within 60 seconds.
Can anyone else reproduce a problem with lack of a password on a PHP
connection?
regards, tom lane