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

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com>, Pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: I "might" have found a bug on 8.2.1 win32
Date: 2007-02-02 16:28:09
Message-ID: 45C36699.3090702@postgresql.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> writes:
>> So - since there is at least one user who's suprised by this behaviour,
>> we probably need two things:
>> 1. A message that tells users the password is being remembered for
>> *them* rather than for pgAdmin.
>> 2. A simple way to allow an application to act independently of the
>> user-wide configuration. Or perhaps just better explanation in the docs.
>
> Possibly just another word or two in the "Store Password" button name
> would fix the disagreement. I agree that it's not totally clear that
> it's going to store it for all the user's PG use rather than just
> pgAdmin.

pgAdmin has a feature call Guru Hints which I was thinking of using in
this case - we can give more info about the file, and how to use the
pgpass editor in there.

Regards, Dave.

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