> > I think you could effectively disable the pgpass file (for a given
> > application) if the application always requires an explicit, non-blank
> > password from the user.
>
> If he does that, his users who do not use password-based authentication
> will be after him with the proverbial villager
> > Is there a way to tell the libpq connect function not to use a pgpass
> > file?
>
> No, as Tom already said.
I think you could effectively disable the pgpass file (for a given
application) if the application always requires an explicit, non-blank
password from the user.
libpq won't use .p
> > Say that your application offers a way for each user to set/change
> > his own password.
> >
> > When I (using your application) change my password, you could
> > combine my new password with a secret value and then send the
> > result to the PG server (so now the PG server thinks that my
> >> My application implements field and row level security.
> >> I have custom table of users where user privileges are described.
> >>
> >> However user can login directly to database using pgAdmin. This bypasses
> >> the security.
> >>
> >> How to allow users to login only from my application ?
> > I downloaded the tarball. It's interesting that the search engine on
> > the
> > pgfoundary part of the site could not find it. I used Google, and it
> > was the
> > top hit. Once I knew where to look I could find it on the site, but only
> > manually moving through the pages.
> I had the s
> "Marcel Gsteiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Sometimes I wish there was something like a debugger for PL/PGSQL with
> > breakpoints, single step, variable watching...
>
> Take a look at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/edb-debugger/
> ... it's beta but without users it won't get better.
>
> T
