"Mika Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm currently working on the bash-completion package. The problem with
> postgresql is that psql cannot safely be called because there is no way to
> know whether it will prompt for a password and there is also no way to avoid
> the prompt.
> Needless to say a password prompt is very bad in the context of
> tab-completion.
> Ideally, psql should provide an option --no-password which would cause it to
> never promt for a password, and in case one is needed, fail as if a wrong
> one was given.
Are you suggesting that the shell should invoke psql without any idea of
appropriate connection parameters? This seems utterly foolish.
regards, tom lane
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