On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 10:00:56AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > The only likely reason I can guess at is that you want vim to make its > own connection to the database for some purpose like autocompletion. That's precisely what I'm looking for. > That's a cute idea, but from a security standpoint it sounds like a > disaster in the making. There isn't any secure way to pass down e.g. > a password (neither command line nor environment variables can be > trusted not to be visible to other users), and even if there was > I'm not sure people would be really happy with handing out their > database credentials to any random piece of code psql invokes. I think that passing all-but-password would be good enough. At the very least for my usecases, as I tend to use pgpass and other non-interactive authentications. Best regards, depesz
