>>> On Sun, Dec 9, 2007 at 6:37 PM, in message
<20071210003750.GA5624@alvh.no-ip.org>, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> I have never understood what's the point of having an option to force a
> password prompt. I wonder why don't we deprecate -W?
I occasionally find it useful for situations where I have a .pgpass
entry which would normally cover a database, but I have temporarily
changed the password to prevent conflicting usage during maintenance
or testing. (For example, while "borrowing" a machine which is
normally part of the production load for a series of benchmarks
under the beta release.)
There would be other ways to deal with it if this were gone, but
it is convenient.
-Kevin