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From Marc Balmer
Subject Re: Documentation of .pgpass for Unix is incomplete
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Msg-id BB3D5D66-40DD-45AF-931A-8006E44373EE@msys.ch
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In response to Re: Documentation of .pgpass for Unix is incomplete  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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> Well, it is more complicated than checking just HOME because it calls
> getpwuid_r() if HOME is not set:
>
>     https://doxygen.postgresql.org/fe-connect_8c.html#a3f49cbb20595c1765bd0db5ff434c9c3
>
> Is it worth going into that detail in the docs?

Yes definitely.  This not being properly documented caused me hours of work…

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