Re: BUG #4040: psql should provide option to not prompt for password - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: BUG #4040: psql should provide option to not prompt for password
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Msg-id 200803171805.25512.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: BUG #4040: psql should provide option to not prompt for password  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Am Montag, 17. März 2008 schrieb Tom Lane:
> It's not, IMHO.  You don't even know if the local database is where the
> user is intending to connect to.  Moreover this presupposes some rather
> obsolete ideas about what connection parameters might need to be given
> on the command line.

"psql <TAB>" to complete the local database names is a very useful feature
that has existed and been in use for a long time.  Even if you like to use
psql in a different way, there are many people that use it this way.

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