"Michael Schmidt" <michaelmschmidt@xxxxxxx> writes: > ... Regarding how I concluded > that PGPASSFILE was deprecated for pg_dump, I offer the following. > 1. The documentation for pg_dump in the manual (Section VI) includes a > section labeled "Environment". This lists PGDATABASE, PGHOST, PGPORT, > and PGUSER. It also says "default connection parameters" but there is > no hyperlink or reference to another manual section to explain/define > this term. Yeah. There is a link down in "See Also" but the incomplete "Environment" section of these man pages seems misleading. Rather than try to maintain complete lists in each of the client-application man pages, I propose we remove those sections completely, and just rely on the See Also links to section 29.12. regards, tom lane
