Re: PGPASSWORDFILE env var for libpq

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 15:45, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@atentus.com> writes:
> > > I attach a patch that adds the PGPASSWORDFILE ability to libpq, and
> > > removes the use of PGPASSWORD.
> >
> > Were we actually going to *remove* that, as opposed to deprecate it?
> >
> > There are systems (in fact many) where it's perfectly secure, so I'm
> > not that thrilled about removing functionality ...
> PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE IT WITHOUT AT LEAST ONE RELEASE CYCLE WARNING.
>
> You will ****BREAK**** People.

OK, we will keep it for one release.  Good point.

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.

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