Re: PgAdmin forgets stored password on connection problem

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Eugene Lisitsky <lisitsky(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgAdmin Support <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PgAdmin forgets stored password on connection problem
Date: 2009-11-11 14:48:12
Message-ID: 937d27e10911110648o71e6231du194d9e5f24f21287@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Eugene Lisitsky <lisitsky(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi!
> Thank you for the great program and constant improvement!
> I meet only several troubles usign it, one of them is:
> If you have stored password in connections and a connection attempt was
> failed (due to some network problems for example) then PgAdmin asks you to
> prompt the password again on next connection attempt. What for?

Because the connection messages are often intentionally vague, so we
don't always know if it was a password problem, and therefore always
prompt to be on the safe side.

There's definitely room for improvement here though - patches are
welcome if anyone wants to spend some time on it.

--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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