Re: [GENERAL] Preventing psql from attempting to access ~/.pgpass file.

2017-10-16 Thread Murtuza Zabuawala
​It is not psql but libpq which uses ​.pgpass file, as per my knowledge there is no way of preventing it unless you have your own customize version of libpq which do not have such option in it. But there is a workaround to prevent libpg from using default .pgpass file is to set 'PGPASSFILE' environ

Re: [GENERAL] Preventing psql from attempting to access ~/.pgpass file.

2017-10-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:06:59AM +0300, Allan Kamau wrote: > Is there a way to instruct psql not to try reading ~/.pgpass file? https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-envars.html PGPASSFILE behaves the same as the passfile connection parameter. passfile Specifies the name of the fi

[GENERAL] Preventing psql from attempting to access ~/.pgpass file.

2017-10-16 Thread Allan Kamau
Hi, I am executing many "COPY" commands via psql serially from a bash script from a compute node that accesses a mounted home directory located on a remote server. After about a thousand or so executions of the "COPY" command I get the error "psql: could not get home directory to locate password f