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 ...
regards, tom lane