On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 19:41 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > As I said already, if the user wishes the password to be secure, he > > needs to encrypt it on the client side. > > Maybe we should provide a backslash command in psql
That is a good option, but not the only option required. There are many reasons to need to supply the password as part of a command, rather than an interactive input. Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend