Re: Escaping ":" in .pgpass - code or docs bug?

On 19/12/11 16:48, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Ross Reedstrom<reedstrm@rice.edu>  wrote:
>> This should either be fixed by changing the documentation to say to not escape
>> colons or backslashes in the password part, only, or modify this function
>> (PasswordFromFile) to silently unescape the password string. It already copies
>> it.
>
> My vote is for a doc correction in the back-branches and a behavior
> change in master.

Seems sensible - presumably mentioning "this will be corrected in 9.2"?

It's clearly not what you'd call "urgent" since nobody else seems to 
have noticed before now.

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