Re: [HACKERS] pg_basebackup -R - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] pg_basebackup -R
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Msg-id 38b5f326-efa9-ae37-22ef-93914e65e4f7@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] pg_basebackup -R  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On 2/15/17 10:52, Robert Haas wrote:
> Let's wait and see if anybody else has an opinion.  I imagine that, as
> further libpq parameters are added, eventually this is going to get
> long and annoying enough that we want to do something about it.  But
> we might not have reached that point just yet.

I was also annoyed by it when I first saw it.

I know why we have to do it, to override any libpq environment variables.

Now that I think about it some more, I think we should unset or somehow
make libpq ignore all libpq environment variables in the server
environment.  Nothing good can come of using them.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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