Re: pl/perl autonomous transactions question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jim Nasby
Subject Re: pl/perl autonomous transactions question
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Msg-id E702487A-75EB-482A-AD9F-8F4204582F75@nasby.net
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In response to pl/perl autonomous transactions question  (Bob <luckyratfoot@gmail.com>)
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On Sep 25, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Bob wrote:
> One issue I see with my current DBI  solution is I need to hard
> code or pass in as variables the connection information.  I would
> prefer not to have the password lying around in plain site.  Keep
> in mind this is a batch process not a something I that is called
> manually where a user is
> going to be entering their username and password in.

You might be able to use ident authentication. There's also
the .pgpass file.

Unfortunately, there's no way right now to handle the authentication
automatically, though that would be nice to have.

BTW, you should take a look at contrib/dblink. It'd probably be more
performant than a perl procedure would be, among other benefits.
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Jim Nasby                                            jim@nasby.net
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