Re: Bug #756: suggestion: file with password instead of

Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 12:14, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Rod Taylor wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 05:13, Reinhard Max wrote:
> > > > On 4 Sep 2002 at 12:48, Rod Taylor wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > This item:
> > > > > Add file to hold passwords using PGPASSWORDFILE environment variable
> > > > >
> > > > > Has been completed, and will be a part of the 7.3 release.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a default file name like ~/.pgpassword so that this feature
> > > > can be used without setting yet another environment variable?
> > >
> > > I'm not entirely sure, but I don't believe so. You can read the 7.3
> > > docs at developer.postgresql.org.
> >
> > Is there a good reason for a default for this? If we have a default,
> > there will be no way to disable the lookups except by renaming the file.
> > On the other hand, no default means that people will make up their own
> > names for the file, and that seems bad.
>
> My understanding is that it's a single password, not a list.

It isn't a single password. It is a file containing one password per
line with pattern matching.

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