Re: [PATCH] (Windows) psql echoes password when reading from pipe

Matthew Stickney <mtstickney(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On windows, if you pipe data to psql, the password prompt correctly
> reads from and writes to the console, but the password text is echoed to
> the console. This is because echoing is disabled on the handle for
> stdin, but as part of a pipeline stdin doesn't refer to the console.
> I've attached a patch that gets a handle to the console's input buffer
> by opening CONIN$ instead, which corrects the problem.

Thanks for the report and patch!

I know zip about Windows coding, but I can't help comparing this:

- t = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
+ t = CreateFile("CONIN$", GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL);

to the code a little bit above:

termin = fopen("CONIN$", "r");

Is it possible to operate on "termin" instead of doing a second open
(which might fail, which we are failing to cope with :-()?

regards, tom lane