Re: PGPASSWORDFILE env var for libpq

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?

The only way to do PGPASSWORD right would be to test OS's to see which
one's have secure environment variables.

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