On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 15:45, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@atentus.com> writes:
> > I attach a patch that adds the PGPASSWORDFILE ability to libpq, and
> > removes the use of PGPASSWORD.
>
> Were we actually going to *remove* that, as opposed to deprecate it?
>
> There are systems (in fact many) where it's perfectly secure, so I'm
> not that thrilled about removing functionality ...
PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE IT WITHOUT AT LEAST ONE RELEASE CYCLE WARNING.
You will ****BREAK**** People.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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