On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: >> There was also that (old) thread about making the recovery.conf parameters >> be general GUCs. I don't actually remember the consensus there, but diong >> that would certainly change how it's handled as well. > > It strikes me that keeping a password embedded in the conninfo from being > exposed might be quite a bit harder/riskier if it became a GUC. Something > to keep in mind if we ever try to make that change ...
Exposing it in memory for a long time is an issue even if we have a new GUC-flag to obfuscate the value in some cases.. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
