Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 11:36:55 +0800
From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: coleman.rik@gmail.com, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 34.16. The Password File error re windows pgpass.conf location
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Hi,

On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 05:45:38PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> > On this page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgpass.html
> > It incorrectly states:
> >     %APPDATA%\postgresql\pgpass.conf
> > In reality this files needs to be placed here on a Windows system:
> >     %APPDATA%\Roaming\postgresql\pgpass.conf
> >                             ^^^^^^^^
> 
> Hmm ... that text has been like that since 2005, and you're the first
> to report it's wrong.  I suspect it's not wrong for the majority of
> users, and instead there's something odd about your configuration.
> I don't know enough about Windows to guess at exactly what.

The code uses "CSIDL_APPDATA" for the root directory containing
postgresql/pgpass.conf.  According to
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/usmt/usmt-recognized-environment-variables,
it's the same as APPDATA, and the "Roaming" part should be part of it:

> CSIDL_APPDATA
> The file-system directory that serves as a common repository for
> application-specific data. A typical path is C:\Documents and
> Settings\username\Application Data or C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming.

So it doesn't look like anything changed there recently, and maybe the OP did
some unusual configuration there.