Re: Re: Unknown token in connection string - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Re: Unknown token in connection string
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In response to Re: iso-8859-1 token in connection string  (Prasad <prasad.s@mail.com>)
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Prasad <prasad.s@mail.com> wrote:
> Looking at code, it looks like "connection string", is not expecting any password and will prompt for one. May well
possiblya bug.
 

No, it's a security "feature". Using passwords on the command line is
a bad idea as other users can see it in ps output etc. Use a
PGPASSFILE instead.

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