Re: [HACKERS] First patch proposal

2010-11-03 Thread Mike Fowler
On 14/10/10 15:53, Alastair Turner wrote: It isn't a TODO item, or related to any previous thread I could find. It's certainly something I can see a use for. When I'm having a bad typing day I get annoyed that I find I've made a mistake after I've typed the password. To me this is a feature

Re: [HACKERS] First patch proposal

2010-10-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:29 +0200, Alastair Turner wrote: > I am proposing altering psql to raise certain errors and exit before > prompting for a password. These errors would have to be on items which > didn't leak any information, my current list is: > - Does the input file (-f) exist and is it

Re: [HACKERS] First patch proposal

2010-10-15 Thread Mike Fowler
On 14/10/10 15:53, Alastair Turner wrote: It isn't a TODO item, or related to any previous thread I could find. It's certainly something I can see a use for. When I'm having a bad typing day I get annoyed that I find I've made a mistake after I've typed the password. To me this is a featu

Re: [HACKERS] First patch proposal

2010-10-14 Thread Alastair Turner
Excerpt from Hitoshi Harada - Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:32 PM: > Just for information, did you pick this topic from TODO > list? If so, could you attach links to the entry or to some related > former thread? And in general it is encouraged that you'd better send > one feature per a patch, in order fo

Re: [HACKERS] First patch proposal

2010-10-14 Thread Alastair Turner
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Alastair Turner writes: >> I am proposing altering psql to raise certain errors and exit before >> prompting for a password. These errors would have to be on items which >> didn't leak any information, my current list is: >>  - Does the input fil

Re: [HACKERS] First patch proposal

2010-10-14 Thread Tom Lane
Alastair Turner writes: > I am proposing altering psql to raise certain errors and exit before > prompting for a password. These errors would have to be on items which > didn't leak any information, my current list is: > - Does the input file (-f) exist and is it readable > - Do paths to the out

Re: [HACKERS] First patch proposal

2010-10-14 Thread Hitoshi Harada
2010/10/14 Alastair Turner : > I am proposing altering psql to raise certain errors and exit before > prompting for a password. These errors would have to be on items which > didn't leak any information, my current list is: >  - Does the input file (-f) exist and is it readable >  - Do paths to the

[HACKERS] First patch proposal

2010-10-14 Thread Alastair Turner
Hi I am a keen Postgres user and I run my local PUG (JNBPUG in Gauteng, South Africa), but I have found the idea of contributing on a code level daunting. Having read the many warnings along the lines of "It's still on the todo because it isn't trivial" I have identified what I believe is a manag