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

From Magnus Hagander
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  (Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: Re: pgAdmin III and pgpass was I "might" have found a bug on 8.2.1 win32  (Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>)
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Dave Page wrote:
> 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.

My arguments must've sucked if they failed so completely to make an
impression.

I think we discussed this in Tokyo actually. And I lost out to both you
and Andreas.

//Magnus

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