Re: Why do we have a database specification in .pgpass?

Pavel Golub <pavel@microolap.com>

From: Pavel Golub <pavel@microolap.com>

To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-10-14T06:29:25Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Hello, Bruce.

You wrote:

BM> We have a database specification in .pgpass:

BM>         hostname:port:database:username:password

BM> What is the purpose of 'database' since username/password combinations
BM> are global, not per database?  I would like to documents its purpose.

BM> -- 
BM>   Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
BM>   EnterpriseDB                             http://enterprisedb.com

BM>   + It's impossible for everything to be true. +


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