[Python-modules-team] Bug#781033: python-django: "manage dbshell" fails to transmit settings password to postgresql

[Raphael Hertzog]

Control: forwarded -1 https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23658

On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Jean-Michel Nirgal Vourgère wrote:
> Another possibility is PGPASSFILE env, that provide an alternate
> ~/.pgpass file. I believe a temporary file would work. This wouldn't
> require hacking any existing .pgpass.

Agreed. I just checked the upstream bug tracker and found numerous similar
requests that were turned down as wontfix in the past but it looks like
they are open to reconsider the question in
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23658

So I submitted this suggestion there and have marked this bug as forwarded.

Cheers,
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