Re: Password issue revisited

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Michael Schmidt" <michaelmschmidt(at)msn(dot)com>
Cc: "PostgreSQL General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Password issue revisited
Date: 2007-01-28 01:46:33
Message-ID: 26015.1169948793@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Michael Schmidt" <michaelmschmidt(at)msn(dot)com> writes:
> Also, it appears
> from the documentation that the PGPASSFILE environmental variable has
> been deprecated for pg_dump and pg_restore.

Eh? Certainly not ... where did you get that idea?

> I would like to ask that we return to outputting the Password prompt on
> stderr and accepting password input on stdin.

I think it's unlikely we will revert that, as it's been a done deal for
several releases now (since 7.4 in fact).

regards, tom lane

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