From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: BUG #16486: Prompted password is ignored when password specified
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 2:36 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> The entire point of the -W switch is that it prompts whether or not
>> the password is going to be used for anything.

> A more intuitive interpretation of -W is that it prompts for a password,
> regardless of valid values being provided by other configuration, and uses
> that password exclusively to attempt to connect to the server.
> The documentation doesn't actually say which one of those two
> interpretations is correct.

Hmm ... I had thought that the docs explained -W in more or less the same
way I did above, but I see that (at least on the psql page) things are
indeed pretty vague.  I'll see about improving that.

			regards, tom lane