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To: "Michael Schmidt" <michaelmschmidt@msn.com>
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Subject: Re: Password issue revisited 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Michael Schmidt" <michaelmschmidt@msn.com>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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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