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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland r...@iol.ie Galway Cathedral Recitals: http://www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
