On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 16:04, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> I took a quick look at the code, and from what I can tell this is
>> because PQconnectionNeedsPassword() always returns false if a
>> pgpass.conf has been used. There is no handling the case where pgpass
>> is used, but has an incorrect password.
>
> Why should it? That code is complicated enough, I don't think it needs
> to have a behavior of pretending that a wrong entry isn't there.
In that case, we should probably teach pg_ctl about this case, no?
Since it clearly gives an incorrect message to the user now...
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