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>)
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Dave Page wrote:
> 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

Hmm. Ok, my arguments must *REALLY* have sucked then.

Man, you're not helping my confidence here!

//Magnus


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