Re: SR slaves and .pgpass

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-09T03:52:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Fujii Masao wrote:
> Tom's proposal is very small, but we cannot distinguish the password
> for replication purpose from that for the real database named "replication".
> Is this OK? I can live with this as far as it's documented.
>
>   

There is precedent for .pgpass being a bit ambiguous. See the way 
"localhost" is used.

cheers

andrew