| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Remove psql's -W option |
| Date: | 2018-07-23 15:20:46 |
| Message-ID: | CA+Tgmoa1WU21SRS4Pe-g=KyM5tyGmsi5UV5KcYS03MWXbvtZsg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 9:35 AM, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> wrote:
> Otherwise ISTM that "-W/--password" still has some minimal value thus does
> not deserve to be thrown out that quickly.
I think I agree. I don't think this option is really hurting
anything, so I'm not quite sure why we would want to abruptly get rid
of it.
I also think your other question is a good one. It seems like the
fact that we need to reconnect -- rather than just prompting for the
password and then sending it when we get it -- is an artifact of how
libpq is designed rather than an intrinsic limitation of the protocol.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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