Re: [BUGS] Provide a way to not ask for a password in psql

2007-10-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote: > Martin Pitt wrote: > > For example, "psql -l" is a convenient > > method to check whether the postmaster is running at all, > > finished with startup and ready for connections. > > Why not just "pg_ctl status"? That doesn't check whether the server is actually an

Re: [BUGS] Provide a way to not ask for a password in psql

2007-10-09 Thread Euler Taveira de Oliveira
Martin Pitt wrote: > For example, "psql -l" is a convenient > method to check whether the postmaster is running at all, > finished with startup and ready for connections. > Why not just "pg_ctl status"? -- Euler Taveira de Oliveira http://www.timbira.com/ ---(end o

[BUGS] Provide a way to not ask for a password in psql

2007-10-09 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello, first, congratulations for 8.3beta1. I built some initial Debian/Ubuntu packages which went very smoothly. I am now walking through the failures of my postgresql-common test suite. One particular regression is that there seems to be no way any more to inhibit the password prompt in psql.