Document spaces in .pgpass need to be escaped

From: James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Document spaces in .pgpass need to be escaped
Date: 2021-09-28 14:17:15
Message-ID: CAAaqYe8EHeCZXLP9HmF3-xdLBtc+9Bn4Qm_vpQSH2gRSzOnq1g@mail.gmail.com
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A coworker has a space in a Postgres password and noticed .pgpass
didn't work; escaping it fixed the issue. That requirement wasn't
documented (despite other escaping requirements being documented), so
I've attached a patch to add that comment.

Thanks,
James Coleman

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v1-0001-Document-spaces-in-.pgpass-need-to-be-escaped.patch application/octet-stream 1.5 KB

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