Re: BUG #13741: vacuumdb does not accept valid password

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Cc: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>, brown@fastmail.com, "pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org" <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-11-12T21:08:50Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers
Michael Paquier wrote:

> OK, so attached is a patch aimed at master and 9.5. I reused the
> suggestion of Haribabu to not rely completely on the maintenance
> database after testing with a couple of database, some of them using
> md5 and others trust. That's just more portable this way, and user
> just needs to specify the password once to be done even with vacuumdb
> --all.

Thanks, pushed a slightly tweaked version.  If you can please verify
that I didn't break anything, it'd be great.

FWIW I think the mode that generated the most connections is -jN --all
--analyze-in-stages.  For additional annoyance, one sets up the
"postgres" database with trust auth and others with md5.  All the cases
I tried only get a single prompt now.

Thanks Eric for reporting the problem and Haribabu and Michael for
patching.

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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Commits

  1. vacuumdb: don't prompt for passwords over and over