Re: 'replication' keyword on .pgpass (Streaming Replication)

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 13:34, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Fujii Masao wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>>>> Such information are supplied in the parameter 'primary_conninfo' of
>>>> recovery.conf. For example;
>>>>
>>>>    primary_conninfo = 'host=192.168.1.50 port=5432 user=foo'
>>> So the password can just go there, no?
>>
>> Yeah, the password can be supplied in primary_conninfo.
>>
>>    primary_conninfo = 'host=192.168.1.50 port=5432 user=foo password=foopass'
>>
>> Also you can use the environment variable PGPASSWORD.
>> Is this enough? I was thinking that some people would
>> complain that only the password for replication cannot
>> be supplied in .pgpass.
>
> That seems enough to me.
>
> BTW, how do you set up authentication using an SSL certificate? ISTM
> that's the way we should be encouraging people to configure
> authentication between a master and standby, rather than type a password
> to a file.

Connectoin parameters: sslcert, sslkey and sslrootcert in most cases.
Or just put the key in ~/.postgresql/postgresql.key.

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