Re: Documentation of .pgpass for Unix is incomplete

From: Marc Balmer <marc(at)msys(dot)ch>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Documentation of .pgpass for Unix is incomplete
Date: 2024-08-20 07:24:43
Message-ID: BB3D5D66-40DD-45AF-931A-8006E44373EE@msys.ch
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> Well, it is more complicated than checking just HOME because it calls
> getpwuid_r() if HOME is not set:
>
> https://doxygen.postgresql.org/fe-connect_8c.html#a3f49cbb20595c1765bd0db5ff434c9c3
>
> Is it worth going into that detail in the docs?

Yes definitely. This not being properly documented caused me hours of work…

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