On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 12/19/2014 11:57 PM, Dave Page wrote:
>> Right - we'd have to store the entries somewhere based on the target
>> server and the SSH config, and dynamically rebuilt the pgpass file
>> during the connection process. That seems a) ugly and b) very fragile.
>
> Darn. I thought libpq had a callback for a password prompt, but it doesn't.
>
> Guess we should add that. If libpq gets an auth request from the server
> and has no password from the connection string, it should invoke a
> callback (if supplied) that lets the client supply a password dynamically.
That would be very handy.
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