On 10/22/2011 11:39 AM, nrdb wrote:
>> Are you willing to submit a patch for people to review? I am not sure
>> if the community would want this as backend code or not but it is
>> definitely something to discuss.
>>
>
> Yes! but I don't know what the procedure is to do that.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
>>
>> Others might have different ideas.
>
> I thought one way would be to pass the name of a named pipe in with a
> command argument and then have some program that asks the user for the
> password and writes it to the named pipe.
Any patch you submit will be subject to quite a bit of discussion so be
prepared for that. Also it will have to be portable to Windows.
JD
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