Re: pgsql: Adjust user-facing documentation to explain why we don't check - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: pgsql: Adjust user-facing documentation to explain why we don't check
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Msg-id 45DB5430.5060004@hagander.net
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In response to Re: pgsql: Adjust user-facing documentation to explain why we don't check  (Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>)
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Dave Page wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> It would break insofar that it wouldn't work. the pgpass file. It will
>> of course not break *windows*, but people will consider PostgreSQL broken.
>>
>
> Please explain why it won't work. *Existing* pgpass files would need to
> be secured, but that could be handled with documentation and suitable
> checks and hints in pgAdmin/libpq. New pgpass files created by pgAdmin
> (or other apps) would simply need to be secured by those apps at
> creation time.

Files created using notepad (or whatever) will not work. Unless you
manually fiddle around with the permissions.

//Magnus


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