Re: I "might" have found a bug on 8.2.1 win32 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: I "might" have found a bug on 8.2.1 win32
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Msg-id 45C37131.6090002@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: I "might" have found a bug on 8.2.1 win32  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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> So - since there is at least one user who's suprised by this behaviour,
> we probably need two things:
> 1. A message that tells users the password is being remembered for
> *them* rather than for pgAdmin.

Well that is up to the pgAdmin team but I would agree that if pgAdmin is
going to continue the behavior that it should be explicit, something like:

Saving your password with pgAdmin for user Windows user foo.

Heck you could even sell it as a feature.

> 2. A simple way to allow an application to act independently of the
> user-wide configuration. Or perhaps just better explanation in the docs.

Other apps can just null the environment variable.

Joshua D. Drake


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