Re: [BUGS] More SSL questions..

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>Excellent. I would suggest that we allow an environment variable PGHOME to
>>override this on all platforms, falling back to the above on Windows and
>>HOME elsewhere.
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>Given that this code is mainly used to find security-critical files
>(.pgpass and SSL certificates), I'm not sure that an override is a good
>idea.  I'm not dead set against it though --- any other opinions out
>there?
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If that's a valid concern (and it might well be) then we shouldn't rely
on any environment variable, including HOME - on Unix at least one could
use getpwent() and friends.

cheers

andrew