From: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] DBD::Pg and .pgpass
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 01:10:48 -0000
Message-ID: <450719ffd2a29a5ccbb98aa2376ed407@biglumber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e17e509c3f4ead15ab1dffe9d157aadc@cert.org>
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> I'm trying to run a Perl script connecting to a PostgreSQL database via
> DBI and DBD::Pg as a cron job. I'm already using the .pgpass mechanism
> for managing md5 passwords on the client side and would like to use the
> same mechanism for connecting from the Perl script. This does not,
> however, appear to work. Passing either "" or undef for the password
> yields "no password supplied at <script> line <line>".
I know that this was a libpq bug in the past (circa 2002) but I thought it
had been fixed. I am ccing this to the hackers list to see if anyone can
verify this.
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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200505040905
http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8
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