I'm giving a try at some TODO items. Currently it's the turn of the

PGPASSWORDFILE environment variable.  I have modified libpq to make use
of this variable.  I present the first cut here.

Currently the format for the file should be

host:port:database:user:password

Alvaro Herrera

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/src/interfaces/perl5/Pg.pm b/src/interfaces/perl5/Pg.pm
index 920612ebb4e..14d010dba87 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/perl5/Pg.pm
+++ b/src/interfaces/perl5/Pg.pm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #-------------------------------------------------------
 #
-# $Id: Pg.pm,v 1.10 2001/09/10 04:19:19 momjian Exp $
+# $Id: Pg.pm,v 1.11 2002/08/15 02:56:19 momjian Exp $
 #
 # Copyright (c) 1997, 1998  Edmund Mergl
 #
@@ -260,15 +260,16 @@ When opening a connection a given database name is always converted to
 lower-case, unless it is surrounded by double quotes. All unspecified 
 parameters are replaced by environment variables or by hard coded defaults: 
 
-    parameter  environment variable  hard coded default
-    --------------------------------------------------
-    host       PGHOST                localhost
-    port       PGPORT                5432
-    options    PGOPTIONS             ""
-    tty        PGTTY                 ""
-    dbname     PGDATABASE            current userid
-    user       PGUSER                current userid
-    password   PGPASSWORD            ""
+    parameter     environment variable  hard coded default
+    ------------------------------------------------------
+    host           PGHOST                localhost
+    port           PGPORT                5432
+    options        PGOPTIONS             ""
+    tty            PGTTY                 ""
+    dbname         PGDATABASE            current userid
+    user           PGUSER                current userid
+    password       PGPASSWORD            ""
+    passwordfile   PGPASSWORDFILE        ""
 
 Using appropriate methods you can access almost all fields of the 
 returned PGconn structure.