On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 10:38 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
I used a later version of Tom's patch to add documentation of how connection strings can override command-line options, plus it has the password description improvements.
I would like to apply this to all supported versions.
Not related to the proposed change, this sentence is the same before and after, but makes me wonder:
> However, <application>psql</application>
will waste a connection attempt finding out that the server wants a password. In some cases it is worth typing <option>-W</option> to avoid
the extra connection attempt.
AFAIK, there is nothing in the protocol that forces psql to make an extra connection attempt. If libpq provided a means to pass a password-prompt callback, no extra connection would be needed I think?
