Re: Re: pgAdmin III and pgpass was I "might" have found a bug on 8.2.1 win32 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Re: pgAdmin III and pgpass was I "might" have found a bug on 8.2.1 win32
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In response to Re: Re: pgAdmin III and pgpass was I "might" have found a bug on 8.2.1 win32  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Re: pgAdmin III and pgpass was I "might" have found a bug on 8.2.1 win32  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> I do not intend to rewrite this code (which has been in pgAdmin for
>> years) on the basis of a single complaint from the author of an
>> equivalent, but commercial tool. If you do not like the effects you see
>> when a user has a pgpass file, you should warn them in your own code,
>> not expect us to change ours to avoid using a documented feature of libpq.
>
> Ok, as most of the regular readers know, I don't often agree with Tony
> (so open your eyes, you may never see this again!), but really Dave,
> that's not a true statement. I know for a fact that I have complained
> about this feature at least once (I think twice) and we had a pretty
> long discussion about it. And I like to see myself as a developer on the
> project, and not a commercial tool ;-)

I honestly don't remember that. I do recall you commenting to that
effect in response to Tony though.

Regards, Dave.

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