[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) writes:
> If your pg_hba.conf looks like
>       host    all     all     0.0.0.0/32      md5
> there's not much call to update it dynamically ...

There's one case, where .pgpass got hosed, and you didn't have a
backup of it, and need to assign new passwords...

I once ran into a case like this, where nobody had bothered to record
the "postgres" user's password, and had to override md5 authentication
in order to get in and reset passwords...
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