Gregory Stark wrote: > "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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? > > > > It's not *completely* useless, because you only need one connection > > attempt not two --- normally, psql gets rejected once before figuring > > out that it must ask for a password. > > Hm, I wonder if this fixes one of the annoyances of kerberos support. If you > have kerberos tickets psql uses the principal name from them rather than your > unix username. If you don't actually use kerberos authentication for your > postgres server then that means you have to specify the user on the command > line all the time.
Huh, isn't this solved by just setting PGUSER? (In any case I doubt -W has any effect on it.) -- Alvaro Herrera Valdivia, Chile ICBM: S 39º 49' 18.1", W 73º 13' 56.4" "La vida es para el que se aventura" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
