psql password prompt

Peter E. can you look at this?  I see simple prompt doing:
       fputs(prompt, stdout);

which I think should be stderr.  Peter, can you check on those?


> 
> Does it still make sense to send the following to
> pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org?
>   
> - Scott Williams
> 
> 
> Subject: pg_dump -u prompts for username/password on stdout rather than stderr
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Your name        :    Scott Williams
> Your email address    :    Scott@James.com
> 
> 
> System Configuration
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>   Architecture (example: Intel Pentium)      : i586
>   Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF)     : Linux 2.2.10
>   PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.3): PostgreSQL-6.5.3 
>   Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.8.0)        : egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)
> 
> 
> Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
>   When running pg_dump with the -u switch, it prompts me on stdout for
>   the username and password, rather than stderr.  Unfortunately this
>   causes a bit of confusion when doing
> 
>      pg_dump -o -u some_db >dump_file
> 
>   since it puts the prompt in the dump_file rather than to the screen,
>   making dump_file syntacticly invalid.  Of course the work around is
>   to use the `-f' flag.  However, redirecting pg_dump's stdout to a
>   file using `>' is what's shown under `Usage' in the pg_dump chapter
>   of the `PostgreSQL User's Guide'
> 
> 
> Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
> concise reproducible example, if at all possible: 
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> 
> If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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> 
> 
> 


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