Re: pgAdmin has started randomly pestering me about a password again.

Hello,

We have fixed the save empty password issue in the latest release, Can you
please try downloading pgAdmin 4 v4.21 and check?
Link: https://www.pgadmin.org

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Regards,
Murtuza Zabuawala
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 5:43 PM <tutiluren(at)tutanota(dot)com> wrote:

> Lately, roughly once a day (it seems to not matter if I shut down the
> pgAdmin server and then start it up again), pgAdmin again asks for the damn
> password, and I again have to check the "remember" checkbox and click an
> extra time for the thing to actually start. There is no password. I've told
> it to save the empty "password" a billion times.
>
> I was forced to make a special Pale Moon profile just for pgAdmin
> specifically to not have it constantly ask me for the password...
>
> All in all, it's been an absolute *nightmare* dealing with pgAdmin since
> the 4.x branch. The fact that it doesn't have its own GUI has caused so
> many problems it's not even meaningful to try to list them all. Using
> whatever "browser" is installed on the machine (there are no non-spyware
> browsers left now) was a very bad idea, and it cannot be repeated too many
> times. I still don't get what the point is of not providing a minimal,
> stand-alone "web view" kind of thing.
>
> My config_local.py contains:
>
> MASTER_PASSWORD_REQUIRED=False
>
> I cannot reproduce it asking for the password. It seems to happen the
> first time I start the computer for the day, which makes no sense. I never
> clear the data for the pgAdmin 4 Pale Moon profile, specifically to avoid
> having to be pestered about a password. Yet it still happens.
>
> I'm frankly sick of this whole program and dealing with all its
> neverending bugs and annoyances, and the only reason I haven't dropped it
> long ago is that the so-called alternatives are *even worse*. Between this,
> the requirement to manually install new installers for each update of both
> PG and PostGIS on Windows, and the refusal of the PG developers to support
> Unicode for the application_name, it's truly a miserable situation for us
> PostgreSQL users. I feel very little enjoyment or satisfaction dealing with
> any of this, because everything is so flimsy and ever-breaking.
>