Re: pgAdmin forgets password on "could not connect to server" error

From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgAdmin forgets password on "could not connect to server" error
Date: 2013-10-02 21:33:39
Message-ID: l2i3fj$n0c$1@ger.gmane.org
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On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:17:37 -0600, Andrew Swartzendruber wrote:

> Would it be possible to prevent the system from forgetting the stored
> password when pgAdmin fails to connect in a future release or have an
> option that would prevent forgetting of passwords?
>
> I use pgAdmin 1.16 or 1.18 to connect to our database and use the store
> password option. If postgres is not running or the network is not
> working for any reason, pgAdmin displays an error that it cannot connect
> to the database and immediately forgets the stored password. This is
> extremely inconvenient when using a long pass-phrase as it requires me
> to lookup the password and re-enter it when I can again connect to the
> server.
>
What has that to do with Postgres? It's a pgadmin3 question.

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