Re: How to fork pg_dump or psql w/o leaking secrets?

On Fri, 22 Sept 2023 at 15:25, Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 12:45 PM Luca Ferrari <fluca1978(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> I think that forking a beast like psql will make you incurring into a
>> lot of security problems that are worst your "password leak".
> I'm sorry, but this doesn't make sense to me.
> I'm talking of replacing using my tool then psql, with using my tool that forks psql.
> In both cases these are clients apps that connect to a particular DB, for a given user.

It appears you use fork to mean "fork & exec", the classic way to
start a slave ( controlled? helper ? I do not know the modern PC word
for that ) process on *ix, while Luca is thinking on a source fork,
the thing which is normally done in git and friends to have a similar
but derived software built.

Francisco Olarte.