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Re: BUG #1567: can't hide password with pg_autovacuum
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| Neil Conway 2005-03-30, 9:42 am |
| Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> I believe that pg_autovacuum will work with a .pgpass file just like any
> libpq based application.
It should, yes. I've applied the attached patch to HEAD and
REL8_0_STABLE that makes the security warning about -P more broad, and
suggests using ~/.pgpass instead.
-Neil
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| Alvaro Herrera 2005-03-30, 9:42 am |
| On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 03:06:44PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote:
> Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
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> It should, yes. I've applied the attached patch to HEAD and
> REL8_0_STABLE that makes the security warning about -P more broad, and
> suggests using ~/.pgpass instead.
I believe on Windows the file is called pgpass.conf instead?
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| Neil Conway 2005-03-30, 9:42 am |
| Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I believe on Windows the file is called pgpass.conf instead?
The SGML docs pretty consistently only mention "~/.pgpass" when
referencing this feature, so I didn't bother mentioning the other name
in the pg_autovacuum README. Perhaps someone should fix the SGML docs to
refer to both, or perhaps to speak in terms of a general "libpq password
file" feature or some such.
-Neil
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| Bruce Momjian 2005-03-31, 7:02 am |
| Neil Conway wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
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> The SGML docs pretty consistently only mention "~/.pgpass" when
> referencing this feature, so I didn't bother mentioning the other name
> in the pg_autovacuum README. Perhaps someone should fix the SGML docs to
> refer to both, or perhaps to speak in terms of a general "libpq password
> file" feature or some such.
Every place the docs mention just .pgpass they reference the section on
pgpass, which shows the Win32 naming. Seems OK to me.
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