John Scalia wrote:
> An edict has been handed down here from on high that no script shall ever contain any password in
> cleartext for any reason. Well this is problem with a streaming replication
> standby server's recovery.conf file as the line primary_conninfo = contains said replication user's
> password for that connection. Is there any sort of plan to allow this to be md5
> or some such encoded? Or what else could I do in this case?
Well, I would consider "trust" authentication.
If you restrict it to a single IP address, I don't think it is less secure
than having your password lying around on another computer.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe