[Dbconfig-common-devel] Re: problems converting a package to dbconfig-common

[sean finney]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:26:19PM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote:
> On 8/2/06, Torsten Werner <mail.twerner at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >/usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/bin/psql simply ignores $PGPASSFILE. It only
> >looks for ~otrs/.pgpass which does not exist. At least strace is
> >telling me that.
> 
> libpq4 was too old! Maybe you can document this trap?

hrm.  8.1 should respect PGPASSFILE, as it was only recently
introduced in 8.1.

in 7.4 and earlier, you could specify a value for HOME when
calling psql to override the default location (with a
temporary one), and place a .pgpass in there.  in 8.0, they
removed this functionality and instead rely on the output
of getent-style functions.

i guess this was a problem for more people than myself,
as in 8.1 they introduced the PGPASSFILE variable.


	sean
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