Re: More explicit documentation neede on "pgpass"

2022-10-04 Thread Geoff Michaels
I appreciate and respect the efforts made here to help one simple user. The Microsoft reference says it is valid up to Windows Vista, so it is an excellent example of how things continue changing. I would define, as an amateur, of course, "typical" to mean "the way it is out of the box when you do

Re: More explicit documentation neede on "pgpass"

2022-10-04 Thread Geoff Michaels
Thanks. I had missed the distinction between $APPDATA$ and %APPDATA%. I will assume that I will find that %APPDATA% defaults to ...\APPDATA\ROAMING. If one is inspired to try to "idiot-proof" the documentation, one could insert the parenthetical expression "(typically \AppData\Roaming)" for those

Re: More explicit documentation neede on "pgpass"

2022-10-03 Thread Julien Rouhaud
On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 09:25:58AM -0600, Geoff Michaels wrote: > Thanks. I had missed the distinction between $APPDATA$ and %APPDATA%. I > will assume that I will find that %APPDATA% defaults to > ...\APPDATA\ROAMING. > > If one is inspired to try to "idiot-proof" the documentation, one could > i

Re: More explicit documentation neede on "pgpass"

2022-10-03 Thread Julien Rouhaud
Hi, On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 01:50:26PM +, PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/libpq-pgpass.html > Description: > > The subdirectory of $APPDATA$ should be stated explicitly in the > doc

Re: More explicit documentation neede on "pgpass"

2022-10-03 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Mon, 2022-10-03 at 13:50 +, PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/libpq-pgpass.html > Description: > > The subdirectory of $APPDATA$ should be stated explicitly in the > documentation.