Re: psql: default base and password reading - Mailing list pgsql-patches

> 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.

Have you seen my later version that reads from stdin/stderr if /dev/tty
doesn't open.  How is that?

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