John Scalia wrote: > An edict has been handed down here from on high that no script shall ever contain any password in > cleartext for any reason. Well this is problem with a streaming replication > standby server's recovery.conf file as the line primary_conninfo = contains said replication user's > password for that connection. Is there any sort of plan to allow this to be md5 > or some such encoded? Or what else could I do in this case? Well, I would consider "trust" authentication. If you restrict it to a single IP address, I don't think it is less secure than having your password lying around on another computer. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin