| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>, <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PGPASSWORDFILE env var for libpq |
| Date: | 2002-08-11 23:44:25 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0208111942090.18506-200000@cm-lcon1-46-187.cm.vtr.net |
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Larry Rosenman dijo:
> On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 15:45, Tom Lane wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > There are systems (in fact many) where it's perfectly secure, so I'm
> > not that thrilled about removing functionality ...
> PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE IT WITHOUT AT LEAST ONE RELEASE CYCLE WARNING.
>
> You will ****BREAK**** People.
Ok, advice taken. New patch attached. Preserves the ability to use
PGPASSWORD, which in fact has preference over PGPASSWORDFILE.
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
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| Attachment | Content-Type | Size |
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| libpq-pwdfile.patch | text/plain | 9.0 KB |
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