Re: Problem in Pg 8.1.4 with CREATEDB

Alexander Scholz wrote:
> Yes, we have the same problem!  Refer to the thread with the subject
> "Problem V8.1.4 - providing pwd for commandline tools doesn't work anymore".
>
> They seem to have change the old behaviour of the commandline tools,
> which worked well since 8.0! I don't understand why the change should be
> "more secure", but I see that nobody took care about the possible
> consequences for installation scripts, third party applications and so
> on. :-(((
>
> At least they should have clearly stated this in the update readme. (The
> comment "Fix problem with password prompting on some Win32 systems" just
> says nothing at all, which could have "alerted" anybody that might
> concern the effect of it)
>
> Sigh,
>
> Alexander.

Thank you for this hint.
We will have to change our setup asap. Which one of the methods passing
a password do you prefer ?
Setting the Password as a environment variable doesn't seem to be very
secure to me :-)

Pit