On 2/26/15 11:15 AM, 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? You can put the password in the a .pgpass file. Not sure if that counts as a "script". Or you can do away with passwords and authenticate using SSL client certificates. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin