This part contains reference information for PCP commands. PCP commands are UNIX commands which manipulate pgpool-II via the network. Please note that the parameter format for all PCP commands has been changed since Pgpool-II 3.5.
PCP user names and passwords must be declared in pcp.conf in $prefix/etc directory (see Section 4.2 to know to create the file). -F option can be used when starting Pgpool-II if pcp.conf is placed somewhere else.
The file .pcppass in a user's home directory or the file referenced by environment variable PCPPASSFILE can contain passwords to be used if no password has been specified for the pcp connection.
This file should contain lines of the following format:
hostname:port:username:password
(You can add a reminder comment to the file by copying the line above and preceding it with #.) Each of the first three fields can be a literal value, or *, which matches anything. The password field from the first line that matches the current connection parameters will be used. (Therefore, put more-specific entries first when you are using wildcards.) If an entry needs to contain : or \, escape this character with \. A host name of localhost matches both TCP (host name localhost) and Unix domain socket connections coming from the local machine.
The permissions on .pcppass must disallow any access to world or group; achieve this by the command chmod 0600 ~/.pcppass. If the permissions are less strict than this, the file will be ignored.