Received: from localhost (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15259FB323; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:11:46 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 65777-08; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:11:42 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF0A9FB31E; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:11:43 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0SIBfsT015856; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:11:41 -0500 (EST) To: "Michael Schmidt" cc: "PostgreSQL General" , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Password issue revisited In-reply-to: References: <26015.1169948793@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to "Michael Schmidt" message dated "Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:06:58 -0700" Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:11:41 -0500 Message-ID: <15855.1170007901@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200701/27 X-Sequence-Number: 4123 "Michael Schmidt" writes: > ... Regarding how I concluded > that PGPASSFILE was deprecated for pg_dump, I offer the following. > 1. The documentation for pg_dump in the manual (Section VI) includes a > section labeled "Environment". This lists PGDATABASE, PGHOST, PGPORT, > and PGUSER. It also says "default connection parameters" but there is > no hyperlink or reference to another manual section to explain/define > this term. Yeah. There is a link down in "See Also" but the incomplete "Environment" section of these man pages seems misleading. Rather than try to maintain complete lists in each of the client-application man pages, I propose we remove those sections completely, and just rely on the See Also links to section 29.12. regards, tom lane