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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #4040: psql should provide option to not prompt for password
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Msg-id 25261.1205782889@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #4040: psql should provide option to not prompt for password  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> BTW while reading the psql manpage I noticed this statement:

>        A popular application of this facility is to refer to  the  last
>        inserted OID in subsequent statements to build a foreign key
>        scenario.

> (This refers to :foo interpolation.)  Talking about popular application
> of OIDs in FKs seems so 90's.  Should we remove that phrase?

Yeah, probably; it's been a very long time since that was considered
a good way to do things.  Can you think of some other example to replace
that with?

            regards, tom lane

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