Re: pgAdmin corrupts pgpass.conf on windows

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Pavlov [mailto:gpavlov(at)mynewplace(dot)com]
> Sent: 16 May 2006 00:51
> To: Dave Page; pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: RE: [pgadmin-support] pgAdmin corrupts pgpass.conf on windows
>
> > If you remove your file altogether and just let pgAdmin manage it
> > itself, does it then corrupt it as well?
>
> I tried that for a bit a while ago and I did not see any
> corruption, but I am not sure my tests were exhaustive. The
> problem is that that is really not a solution for me because
> I want to be able to have many more server/port/user/password
> combinations stored in there for psql/script purposes than
> the few that I need for pgAdmin. For a while I thought that
> my comment lines (starting with #) were confusing pgAdmin but
> it seems to do the rearranging with or without comments in
> there. Another workaround would be to never let pgAdmin store
> passwords -- that does help although pgAdmin still seems to
> touch the file (it does not mess it up as bad). If I have to
> I would take this approach because for my purposes psql
> scripts/pg_dump/pg_restore are primary to pgAdmin. I was just
> hoping for a way for the two to coexist peacefully (and also
> to be able to reuse my Linux .pgpass on Windows).

OK, I think I've found the bug and fixed it - can I mail you an updated
.exe to try?

Regards, Dave.