Greetings, * Tim Cross (theophilusx@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > I suspect it is unlikely you will ever see a .pgpass solution which > supports encryption. There are just too many 'chicken and egg' problems > - you need a key to encrypt the .pgpass file, but now you need to store > the key securely. Problem made more difficult because different > platforms all do this in different ways and with different levels of > sophistication. While it could be done, the amount of work required is > probably more than the desire for anyone to implement it (not a big > enough itch). I generally agree with most of what you had here, but to this point I disagree- it'd actually be quite useful for libpq to gain capabilities in this regard, as it's something that developers these days are clearly interesting in having provided by a library (up to and including vault solution integration, which is becoming more and more a standardized thing, in order to get the needed key), so I dislike the implication that we won't do that or that we'd look down on a patch which moved us towards such a solution. There's certainly some of us in this community who would very much look positively on such a patch. Thanks, Stephen
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