"Michael Schmidt" <michaelmschmidt@msn.com> writes:
> Also, it appears
> from the documentation that the PGPASSFILE environmental variable has
> been deprecated for pg_dump and pg_restore.
Eh? Certainly not ... where did you get that idea?
> I would like to ask that we return to outputting the Password prompt on
> stderr and accepting password input on stdin.
I think it's unlikely we will revert that, as it's been a done deal for
several releases now (since 7.4 in fact).
regards, tom lane