Re: Comments in .pgpass file...

["David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, May 20, 2024, Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It seems that psql (or maybe libpq) doesn't like trailing comments.

This works:

10.143.170.206:5432:*:11026270:Blarge

But this does not:

10.143.170.206:5432:*:11026270:Blarge # Host name: fubar

(Don't tell me to use DNS.  I would if the servers would stay in DNS.)

.pgpass is a libpq thing.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgpass.html

The docs in a bit round-a-bout way state that a comment line begins with the hashtag.  No other mention of comment formats are given.

David J.