Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The manual explains it:
This option is deprecated, as it is conceptually flawed. (Prompting for a
non-default user name and prompting for a password because the server
requires it are really two different things.) You are encouraged to look
at the -U and -W options instead.
Hmm. The point about the forced password prompt is certainly valid,
but I see nothing wrong with the idea of having an option to prompt
for the username. What if we just took out the forced password prompt,
on the grounds that you can get that with "-u -W" if you want it?
Yes, undeprecating it then makes sense.
I have never understood what's the point of having an option to force a
password prompt. I wonder why don't we deprecate -W?
As I recall there was a bug under very specific circumstances that a
password prompt would not appear. Thus we added the option for -W.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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