Re: DOS-style line endings in .pgpass

From: Vik Fearing <vik(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: DOS-style line endings in .pgpass
Date: 2016-11-15 01:07:48
Message-ID: d10c100d-7f59-0c90-6a1d-c0e59fe71d21@2ndquadrant.fr
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On 11/14/2016 09:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Vik Fearing <vik(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> writes:
>> On 11/14/2016 08:31 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> What appears to be happening here is that one of the characters of the
>>> CRLF is being appended to the password, making it invalid.
>
>> Maybe something like the attached patch?
>
> Our usual approach to \r characters is that they're whitespace. I wonder
> whether the most friendly solution here is to chomp all trailing
> whitespace. Anybody ever heard of using a trailing space or tab in a
> password?

Trailing, no; but I have a password with a space in the middle.
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