Neil, thanks for the fix. I saw PQsetdbLogin() calling connectDBStart()
and thought that was the same as PQconnectStart(), where
PasswordFromFile() was already handled; especially thanks for fixing
this befor 7.3.2 was released.
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Neil Conway wrote:
> The handling of .pgpass files in libpq was recently "fixed" to work with
> all connection methods (a patch applied to both REL7_3_STABLE and HEAD),
> but that change broke .pgpass usage in PQsetdbLogin().
>
> This patch fixes the regression, so .pgpass should now be able to work
> with all of the appropriate database connection methods in libpq.
>
> I also fixed a bug in the parsing of .pgpass: if the file was not
> terminated by a newline, the password would be slightly mangled. I
> didn't bother to account for a CRLF line ending -- is getenv("HOME")
> defined on Win32?
>
> I also refactored a bit of code in PasswordFromFile(), and added some
> missing environmental variables to the libpq docs.
>
> This patch is against CVS HEAD, but it should apply to REL7_3_STABLE
> with just a few offsets. Please apply to both.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
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