From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: PGPASSWORDFILE env var for libpq |
Date: | 2002-08-12 05:16:59 |
Message-ID: | 200208120516.g7C5Gx615025@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Larry Rosenman wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 15:45, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> writes:
> > > I attach a patch that adds the PGPASSWORDFILE ability to libpq, and
> > > removes the use of PGPASSWORD.
> >
> > Were we actually going to *remove* that, as opposed to deprecate it?
> >
> > There are systems (in fact many) where it's perfectly secure, so I'm
> > not that thrilled about removing functionality ...
> PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE IT WITHOUT AT LEAST ONE RELEASE CYCLE WARNING.
>
> You will ****BREAK**** People.
OK, we will keep it for one release. Good point.
Shame we couldn't do that will the 'reading password from /dev/tty'
change we made in 7.2. I guess we could have had an environment
variable control it, but that is kind of weird.
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