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:
> 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.

Oh, I was probably drunk then :-p

/D


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