Re: PGPASSWORD

Oliver Jowett wrote:

> postgresbugs wrote:
>
>> The functionality provided by PGPASSWORD should not be removed unless
>> there is a functionality other than .pgpass, which is fine for some
>> uses and not for others, that will provide similar functionality.
>> That could be psql and pg_dump and the like accepting a password on
>> the command line as I stated earlier.
>
>
> Putting the password on the command line would be even more of a
> security problem than PGPASSWORD is now. I agree that an alternative
> to ,pgpass would be useful, but it needs to be a *secure* alternative.
>
> -O

That may be true. Again, I think the option to use or not use PGPASSWORD
or something similar should be up to the system administrator.

John Griffiths