| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name> |
| Cc: | Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Comments in .pgpass file... |
| Date: | 2024-05-21 01:24:07 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwY=5_rReQ9dW7gh_ivuSGKg6F4G=O6y1ruCg4zB0svKjA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Monday, May 20, 2024, Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name> wrote:
> On 2024-05-21 03:01 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > It seems that psql (or maybe libpq) doesn't like trailing comments.
> >
> > This works:
> > 10.143.170.206:5432:*:11026270:Blarge
> >
> > But this does not:
> > 10.143.170.206:5432:*:11026270:Blarge # Host name: fubar
>
> How should libpq know where the password ends and the comment begins
> while still accepting passwords that contain "#"? The password is
> everything between the 4th unescaped colon and the end of line.
>
> This could be made explicit in the docs. But the docs don't even say
> that you can put entries and comments one the same line.
>
As written the docs say if your password contain : or \ you should escape
that character with a \ …
I’m not that surprised that a reader expected the password to end at the
first space.
David J.
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