Re: PgAdmin forgets stored password on connection problem

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Eugene Lisitsky <lisitsky(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I can't get excited at the thought of cluttering the UI to resolve a
>> minor issue. I'd rather we tried to read the pgpass file so we could
>> default the password. Not sure how much effort that would take, but we
>> can probably lift much of the code from libpq.
>
> Excellent idea!
> How do you write .pgpass now? Using some functions from libpq or with your
> own tools only?

Our own code. libpq doesn't have any code to write to pgpass files.

>> > I tried to work with sources, but svn version didn't compile at my
>> > computer.
>> > Can you help me a little?
>> > Compile errors like these:
>> > g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..   -I/usr/include/postgresql -DSSL
>> > -I/usr/lib/wx/include/base-unicode-release-2.8 -I/usr/include/wx-2.8
>> > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGE_FILES -DwxUSE_GUI=0
>>
>> wxUSE_GUI=0 is never going to work. How did you install wxWidgets?
>
>
> I'm working with Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.

What does wx-config --cflags return ? The fact that you have
wxUSE_GUI=0 set will disable 90% of wxWidgets that pgAdmin needs - we
need to find out where that's coming from.

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Dave Page
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