Re: [INTERFACES] DBD::Pg and .pgpass

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> I'm trying to run a Perl script connecting to a PostgreSQL database via
> DBI and DBD::Pg as a cron job. I'm already using the .pgpass mechanism
> for managing md5 passwords on the client side and would like to use the
> same mechanism for connecting from the Perl script. This does not,
> however, appear to work. Passing either "" or undef for the password
> yields "no password supplied at <script> line <line>".

I know that this was a libpq bug in the past (circa 2002) but I thought it
had been fixed. I am ccing this to the hackers list to see if anyone can
verify this.

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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