On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 12:14, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Rod Taylor wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 05:13, Reinhard Max wrote: > > > On 4 Sep 2002 at 12:48, Rod Taylor wrote: > > > > > > > This item: > > > > Add file to hold passwords using PGPASSWORDFILE environment variable > > > > > > > > Has been completed, and will be a part of the 7.3 release. > > > > > > Is there a default file name like ~/.pgpassword so that this feature > > > can be used without setting yet another environment variable? > > > > I'm not entirely sure, but I don't believe so. You can read the 7.3 > > docs at developer.postgresql.org. > > Is there a good reason for a default for this? If we have a default, > there will be no way to disable the lookups except by renaming the file. > On the other hand, no default means that people will make up their own > names for the file, and that seems bad.
My understanding is that it's a single password, not a list. As such you would probably not want a default, as each database you connect to will (should?) have a different password. By setting a default file we may encourage users to use the same password throughout all PostgreSQL databases. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
