Re: PGPASSWORD

Oliver Jowett wrote:
> postgresbugs wrote:
>
>> The functionality provided by PGPASSWORD should not be removed unless
>> there is a functionality other than .pgpass, which is fine for some
>> uses and not for others, that will provide similar functionality. That
>> could be psql and pg_dump and the like accepting a password on the
>> command line as I stated earlier.
>
>
> Putting the password on the command line would be even more of a
> security problem than PGPASSWORD is now. I agree that an alternative to
> ,pgpass would be useful, but it needs to be a *secure* alternative.

The command line could take a file handle of an inherited pipe.

Regards,
Andreas