| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Adam Osuchowski <adwol(at)polsl(dot)gliwice(dot)pl>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: psql: default base and password reading |
| Date: | 2001-10-13 19:39:39 |
| Message-ID: | 200110131939.f9DJddN07462@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > > 2. Password is reading from terminal (/dev/tty) rather than from
> > > stdin.
> >
> > Hmm, that might be a good idea. Comments anyone?
>
> I guarantee you that within 24 hours after such a patch were checked in
> someone's going to complain that he has no /dev/tty.
>
> Meanwhile, there are a couple of possible workarounds:
>
> * PGPASSWORD environment variable.
>
> * FIFOs
>
> * (echo "Password"; pipe_input) | psql
>
> A generalized option to read the password from any file might make sense,
> though.
Have you seen my later version that reads from stdin/stderr if /dev/tty
doesn't open. How is that?
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