Re: Massively annoying bug still not fixed in v1.20 :-( - Mailing list pgadmin-support

On 12/19/2014 09:51 PM, Dave Page wrote:
> It's not going to work because when using an SSH tunnel we have to use
> a random port number for the client end of the tunnel. When libpq (not
> pgAdmin) tries to match the connection details against those that are
> stored, it will often fail because the port number won't match.

Why not handle it like libpq does?

Connect, and if the server asks for a password *then* prompt the user.

You can do this with a libpq connection callback.

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