Re: DOS-style line endings in .pgpass

Vik Fearing <vik@2ndquadrant.fr>

From: Vik Fearing <vik@2ndquadrant.fr>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-11-15T01:07:48Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On 11/14/2016 09:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Vik Fearing <vik@2ndquadrant.fr> writes:
>> On 11/14/2016 08:31 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> What appears to be happening here is that one of the characters of the
>>> CRLF is being appended to the password, making it invalid.
> 
>> Maybe something like the attached patch?
> 
> Our usual approach to \r characters is that they're whitespace.  I wonder
> whether the most friendly solution here is to chomp all trailing
> whitespace.  Anybody ever heard of using a trailing space or tab in a
> password?

Trailing, no; but I have a password with a space in the middle.
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