Re: pgadmin is changing pgpass.conf

On 16/09/2009 10:55, Howard Cole wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have been having a few problems with my password file recently,
> causing my scheduled pg_dump to fail. The problem is that the
> pgpass.conf file keeps changing. Eventually I narrowed it down to using
> pgadmin. Every time I start pgadmin, it changes the contents of my
> pgpass file, even though I do not store my password in pgadmin.
>
> This only seems to have become a problem since installing 8.4 and
> associated version of pgadmin.
>
> Is this the desired behaviour or is it a bug?

It's the desired behaviour, and is described in the pgAdmin docs. As I
remember there was also a discussion (on the pgadmin-support list I
think) when this feature was added, on the merits or otherwise of
storing passwords in plain text on disk.

Ray.

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