| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>, <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PGPASSWORDFILE env var for libpq |
| Date: | 2002-08-11 20:58:49 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0208111647430.15002-100000@cm-lcon1-46-187.cm.vtr.net |
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Tom Lane dijo:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> writes:
> > I attach a patch that adds the PGPASSWORDFILE ability to libpq, and
> > removes the use of PGPASSWORD.
>
> Were we actually going to *remove* that, as opposed to deprecate it?
Well, the TODO says "remove".
> There are systems (in fact many) where it's perfectly secure, so I'm
> not that thrilled about removing functionality ...
It takes very little to add again. I'll submit a patch that corrects
this one.
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
"El conflicto es el camino real hacia la union"
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