Hi PostgreSQL Hackers, Please forgive me if this is not the preferred place to suggest a new feature. I found that a lot of items in the psql TODO list [1] were posted to this email list.
I need to pass a connection string to psql inside Docker [2]. I can pass it as a process argument, but this exposes the password to other processes on my machine: $ docker run --rm -i -t postgres:11 psql "$(cat db_uri)" The alternative is to parse the URI, remove the password, and provide the password via environment variable. It's ugly: $ PGPASSWORD=$(cat db_uri |grep -oE ':[a-zA-Z0-9]*@' |tr -d :@ ) \ docker run --rm -i -t postgres:11 \ psql "$(cat db_uri |sed 's/:[:alnum:]*@/@/')" I would prefer to do this: $ PGURI="$(cat db_uri)" docker run --rm -i -t postgres:11 -e PGURI psql How about adding PGURI to the list of supported environment variables [3]? Sincerely, Michael [1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#psql [2] https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres [3] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/app-psql.html#APP-PSQL-ENVIRONMENT
