Thread: Re: [ANNOUNCE] pgAdmin III v1.4.0 Beta 3 released for testing

Re: [ANNOUNCE] pgAdmin III v1.4.0 Beta 3 released for testing

From
"Dave Page"
Date:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John DeSoi [mailto:desoi@pgedit.com]
> Sent: 25 October 2005 15:10
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] pgAdmin III v1.4.0 Beta 3 released for testing
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> On Oct 25, 2005, at 9:16 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>
> > It stores it in .pgpass, or at least it's supposed to. It's
> not beyond
> > the realms of possibility that it's not picking up the home
> directory
> > corectly on OS X - certainly it didn't as far as logfiles were
> > concerned
> > at one point. I'll look at this as well.
>
> If it uses .pgpass and it works after prompting me the first time,
> maybe the issue is that it does not look for password unless the
> "store password" property is set for the server. It works now and
> my .pgpass is not modified.

Yes, upon a shufty of the code I can see that is what it's doing. Once
it's saved/found the password, it marks the connection as having a
stored password and doesn't bother asking for it from then on.

Regards, Dave.


Re: [ANNOUNCE] pgAdmin III v1.4.0 Beta 3 released

From
Andreas Pflug
Date:
Dave Page wrote:

>>
>>If it uses .pgpass and it works after prompting me the first time,  
>>maybe the issue is that it does not look for password unless the  
>>"store password" property is set for the server. It works now and  
>>my .pgpass is not modified.
> 
> 
> Yes, upon a shufty of the code I can see that is what it's doing. Once
> it's saved/found the password, it marks the connection as having a
> stored password and doesn't bother asking for it from then on.


Right. Let's keep this undocumented, to insure a constant stream of 
questions :-)

Regards,
Andreas