Rod Taylor wrote: > 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.
It isn't a single password. It is a file containing one password per line with pattern matching. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
