Re: I "might" have found a bug on 8.2.1 win32

Tony Caduto wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
> >
> > What you are saying is that because you don't believe in the pgpass
> > design, you are going to summarily delete them - which I know for
> > absolute sure would *really* annoy some pgAdmin users that I know for
> > a fact have a whole heap of passwords stored in theirs. Doing that
> > would only hurt your products reputation, not mine.
> >
> Dave,
>
> My product is not storing passwords using pgpass without the users
> knowledge.
> If pgAdmin III stored it's own passwords in the registry it would be up
> to the user (as it should be) to use pgpass.
> If they chose to use pgpass, libpq would override the passwords stored
> in the registry anyway, which is what pgAdmin III is doing
> automatically to my application without my or my users consent.

You can disable reading .pgpass by defining the PGPASSFILE environment
variable to point to a non-existant file. This works for all
applications that use libpq.

Here is a funny parable about what happens when you try to please
everybody:

http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/62.html

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