Tom Lane wrote:
> Why don't we improve the code, instead? In particular make
> libpqrcv_connect() do
>
> - snprintf(conninfo_repl, sizeof(conninfo_repl), "%s replication=true", conninfo);
> + snprintf(conninfo_repl, sizeof(conninfo_repl), "%s database=replication replication=true", conninfo);
>
> I don't think it's unlikely that someone would try to enter a
> replication-specific password into ~/.pgpass.
>
>
>
+1. It's highly likely - that's how we got here in the first place. It
seems to me like a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
cheers
andrew
