Hello, We have fixed the save empty password issue in the latest release, Can you please try downloading pgAdmin 4 v4.21 and check? Link: https://www.pgadmin.org
-- Regards, Murtuza Zabuawala EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 5:43 PM <tutilu...@tutanota.com> wrote: > Lately, roughly once a day (it seems to not matter if I shut down the > pgAdmin server and then start it up again), pgAdmin again asks for the damn > password, and I again have to check the "remember" checkbox and click an > extra time for the thing to actually start. There is no password. I've told > it to save the empty "password" a billion times. > > I was forced to make a special Pale Moon profile just for pgAdmin > specifically to not have it constantly ask me for the password... > > All in all, it's been an absolute *nightmare* dealing with pgAdmin since > the 4.x branch. The fact that it doesn't have its own GUI has caused so > many problems it's not even meaningful to try to list them all. Using > whatever "browser" is installed on the machine (there are no non-spyware > browsers left now) was a very bad idea, and it cannot be repeated too many > times. I still don't get what the point is of not providing a minimal, > stand-alone "web view" kind of thing. > > My config_local.py contains: > > MASTER_PASSWORD_REQUIRED=False > > I cannot reproduce it asking for the password. It seems to happen the > first time I start the computer for the day, which makes no sense. I never > clear the data for the pgAdmin 4 Pale Moon profile, specifically to avoid > having to be pestered about a password. Yet it still happens. > > I'm frankly sick of this whole program and dealing with all its > neverending bugs and annoyances, and the only reason I haven't dropped it > long ago is that the so-called alternatives are *even worse*. Between this, > the requirement to manually install new installers for each update of both > PG and PostGIS on Windows, and the refusal of the PG developers to support > Unicode for the application_name, it's truly a miserable situation for us > PostgreSQL users. I feel very little enjoyment or satisfaction dealing with > any of this, because everything is so flimsy and ever-breaking. >
