| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PGPASSWORDFILE env var for libpq |
| Date: | 2002-08-12 15:53:50 |
| Message-ID: | 200208121553.g7CFroR04869@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > Shame we couldn't do that will the 'reading password from /dev/tty'
> > change we made in 7.2. I guess we could have had an environment
> > variable control it, but that is kind of weird.
> make sure the fact that PGPASSWORD is going away is ***PROMINENT*** in
> the release notes and README and anywhere PGPASSWORD is documented. If
> in fact, given TGL's objection, that it will go away in 7.4.
Did you find the documentation that LIMIT #,# was being removed in 7.3
to be prominent in 7.2?
The only way to do PGPASSWORD right would be to test OS's to see which
one's have secure environment variables.
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