From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Michael Schmidt <michaelmschmidt@msn.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Password issue revisited
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:46:33 -0500
Message-ID: <26015.1169948793@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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"Michael Schmidt" <michaelmschmidt@msn.com> writes:
> Also, it appears
> from the documentation that the PGPASSFILE environmental variable has
> been deprecated for pg_dump and pg_restore.
Eh? Certainly not ... where did you get that idea?
> I would like to ask that we return to outputting the Password prompt on
> stderr and accepting password input on stdin.
I think it's unlikely we will revert that, as it's been a done deal for
several releases now (since 7.4 in fact).
regards, tom lane
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