X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90C8653405 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 15:07:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26558-08 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 18:07:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F093B533F2 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 15:07:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4EI7n8T004856; Sat, 14 May 2005 14:07:49 -0400 (EDT) To: Bruce Momjian Cc: Martin Pitt , pgsql-docs@postgreSQL.org Subject: Re: [BUGS] Fwd: Bug#308535: postgresql-client: [psql] manual page does not document ~/.pgpass file In-reply-to: <200505141640.j4EGeFl18594@candle.pha.pa.us> References: <200505141640.j4EGeFl18594@candle.pha.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian message dated "Sat, 14 May 2005 12:40:15 -0400" Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 14:07:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4855.1116094069@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.006 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200505/26 X-Sequence-Number: 2991 Bruce Momjian writes: > It is also convenient to have a ~/.pgpass file to avoid regularly having > to type in passwords. See Section 27.12 for more information. > Is that sufficient? It responds to the immediate complaint, but I was thinking that we ought to add links to the relevant pages of the libpq docs in the "See Also" parts of all of the client-application reference pages. If the links read like "Client Environment Variables", "Client Password File", etc then it seems to me this would let us remove the rather incomplete information that is in the individual reference pages today. regards, tom lane