Re: 'replication' keyword on .pgpass (Streaming Replication)

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-06T14:02:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Fujii Masao escribió:
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> >> I don't see the use case for it - .pgpass is for single users, not a whole
> >> cluster. And it does support wildcards, which takes care of the 'all' case.
> >> In the case of pg_hba.conf we don't know in advance who will actually be
> >> connecting. But in the case of .pgpass we do, so the extra utility of
> >> 'sameuser', 'samerole' and 'samegroup' in this case is not apparent to me.
> >
> > OK, I might need to focus only on the use of replication, without
> > being avaricious.
> 
> The attached patch supports new keyword 'replication' on .pgpass file.
> This keyword is used to specify the password for the standby server to
> connect to the primary server.

Would it make more sense to have a separate password file for the
replication stuff?  Say .pgreplicationpass or whatever.


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