Re: worried about PGPASSWORD drop

Tom Lane wrote:
> Christoph Dalitz <christoph(dot)dalitz(at)hs-niederrhein(dot)de> writes:
> > In the TODO list on http://developer.postgresql.org/todo.php,
> > I found the following entry:
> > - Remove PGPASSWORD because it is insecure on some OS's, in 7.4
> > Why?
>
> I don't agree with removing the feature either, since it's perfectly
> useful on many OSes. However your assumption:

The reason for the suggested removal is that we don't have a way of
knowing with OS's are secure, and which are not. If we could determine
which OS's were secure, and enable it only on those, it would be OK to
keep it.

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