Re: BUG #4040: psql should provide option to not prompt for password

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, Mika Fischer <mf+ubuntu(at)zoopnet(dot)de>
Subject: Re: BUG #4040: psql should provide option to not prompt for password
Date: 2008-03-17 19:41:29
Message-ID: 25261.1205782889@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> BTW while reading the psql manpage I noticed this statement:

> A popular application of this facility is to refer to the last
> inserted OID in subsequent statements to build a foreign key
> scenario.

> (This refers to :foo interpolation.) Talking about popular application
> of OIDs in FKs seems so 90's. Should we remove that phrase?

Yeah, probably; it's been a very long time since that was considered
a good way to do things. Can you think of some other example to replace
that with?

regards, tom lane

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