> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>
> > OK, I reread what you said and I see now I am not going to get away with
> > being brief. Text is now:
> >
> > <envar>PGPASSWORD</envar>
> > sets the password used if the backend demands password
> > authentication. This is not recommended because the password can
> > be read by others using a <command>ps</command> environment flag
> > on some platforms.
>
> Looks good to me. I think the 'ps' options are the most annoying
> difference between SysV and BSD Unices. Linux 'ps' tries to be both
> by acting BSDish if you supply options without a dash, and SysVish if
> you use one. Ambitious, but it's bitten me once or twice...
I dealt with this in pgmonitor. Got it working by trying different
combinations and checking the result.
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