> So - since there is at least one user who's suprised by this behaviour,
> we probably need two things:
> 1. A message that tells users the password is being remembered for
> *them* rather than for pgAdmin.

Well that is up to the pgAdmin team but I would agree that if pgAdmin is
going to continue the behavior that it should be explicit, something like:

Saving your password with pgAdmin for user Windows user foo.

Heck you could even sell it as a feature.

> 2. A simple way to allow an application to act independently of the
> user-wide configuration. Or perhaps just better explanation in the docs.

Other apps can just null the environment variable.

Joshua D. Drake


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