"Michael Schmidt" <michaelmschmidt@msn.com> writes:
> ... Regarding how I concluded
> that PGPASSFILE was deprecated for pg_dump, I offer the following.
> 1. The documentation for pg_dump in the manual (Section VI) includes a
> section labeled "Environment". This lists PGDATABASE, PGHOST, PGPORT,
> and PGUSER. It also says "default connection parameters" but there is
> no hyperlink or reference to another manual section to explain/define
> this term.
Yeah. There is a link down in "See Also" but the incomplete
"Environment" section of these man pages seems misleading.
Rather than try to maintain complete lists in each of the
client-application man pages, I propose we remove those sections
completely, and just rely on the See Also links to section 29.12.
regards, tom lane