Commit 8962b610 authored by Neil Conway's avatar Neil Conway

Document that the "-P" option to pg_autovacuum is insecure on many

platforms, and suggest using ~/.pgpass instead.
parent d4beb263
......@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ list.
pg_autovacuum requires that the statistics system be enabled and
reporting row level stats. The overhead of the stats system has been
shown to have a significant cost under certain workloads. For
instance, a tight loop of queries performing "select 1" was found to
run nearly 30% slower when stats were enabled. However, in practice,
shown to be significant under certain workloads. For instance, a
tight loop of queries performing "select 1" was found to run nearly
30% slower when row-level stats were enabled. However, in practice,
with more realistic workloads, the stats system overhead is usually
nominal.
......@@ -127,8 +127,11 @@ pg_autovacuum has the following optional arguments:
-U username: Username pg_autovacuum will use to connect with, if not
specified the current username is used.
-P password: Password pg_autovacuum will use to connect with. *WARNING*
When installed as a Windows Service, this option will be stored in plain
text in the registry.
This option is insecure. When installed as a Windows Service, this
option will be stored in plain text in the registry. When used with
most Unix variants, other users will be able to see the argument to
the "-P" option via ps(1). The ~/.pgpass file can be used to
specify a password more securely.
-H host: host name or IP to connect to.
-p port: port used for connection.
-h help: list of command line options.
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