Re: Documentation of .pgpass for Unix is incomplete

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Marc Balmer <marc(at)msys(dot)ch>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Documentation of .pgpass for Unix is incomplete
Date: 2024-11-01 17:32:32
Message-ID: ZyUQsHdWP0Y_oFpw@momjian.us
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 09:24:43AM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
>
> > Well, it is more complicated than checking just HOME because it calls
> > getpwuid_r() if HOME is not set:
> >
> > https://doxygen.postgresql.org/fe-connect_8c.html#a3f49cbb20595c1765bd0db5ff434c9c3
> >
> > Is it worth going into that detail in the docs?
>
> Yes definitely. This not being properly documented caused me hours of work…

Patch applied, thanks.

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