Re: Escaping ":" in .pgpass - code or docs bug?

Excerpts from Richard Huxton's message of lun dic 19 16:33:31 -0300 2011:
> On 19/12/11 16:48, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Ross Reedstrom<reedstrm@rice.edu>  wrote:
> >> This should either be fixed by changing the documentation to say to not escape
> >> colons or backslashes in the password part, only, or modify this function
> >> (PasswordFromFile) to silently unescape the password string. It already copies
> >> it.
> >
> > My vote is for a doc correction in the back-branches and a behavior
> > change in master.
>
> Seems sensible - presumably mentioning "this will be corrected in 9.2"?
>
> It's clearly not what you'd call "urgent" since nobody else seems to
> have noticed before now.

Yeah, it is a pretty old bug -- this code was clearly written by some
rookie that didn't know very well what he was doing.

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