Re: PGPASSWORDFILE env var for libpq

On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 10:53, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > > Shame we couldn't do that will the 'reading password from /dev/tty'
> > > change we made in 7.2.  I guess we could have had an environment
> > > variable control it, but that is kind of weird.
> > make sure the fact that PGPASSWORD is going away is ***PROMINENT*** in
> > the release notes and README and anywhere PGPASSWORD is documented.  If
> > in fact, given TGL's objection, that it will go away in 7.4.
>
> Did you find the documentation that LIMIT #,# was being removed in 7.3
> to be prominent in 7.2?
Sort of.  I only see it in the history file.....
>
> The only way to do PGPASSWORD right would be to test OS's to see which
> one's have secure environment variables.
SYSV based systems seem to, although those with Linux Personalities
grafted on may break that (e.g. OpenUNIX).


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