Re: psql: default base and password reading

Tom Lane writes:

> > 2. Password is reading from terminal (/dev/tty) rather than from
> > stdin.
>
> Hmm, that might be a good idea.  Comments anyone?

I guarantee you that within 24 hours after such a patch were checked in
someone's going to complain that he has no /dev/tty.

Meanwhile, there are a couple of possible workarounds:

* PGPASSWORD environment variable.

* FIFOs

* (echo "Password"; pipe_input) | psql

A generalized option to read the password from any file might make sense,
though.

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