I am also interested if it will be possible to use variables in the options file so it could be used for different users in MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Found this #555 issue and will try it today.
May be I will pass MySQL password too but would like to hear your opinion too.

I have managed to do this in an interesting way:

• I have created a template file with variables in it.
• In script files parsing template and replacing it with actual values
• I have created source file to parse .my.cnf file and export PWD, HOST and PORT variables for MYSQL

So for now I am missing messages in the output about the copy progress.
Is there anything changed so far so they are gone?
Shall I use --debug option?

Regards,
Areg

Can you link to MySQL documentation about that .my.cnf file? How does it compare with .pgpass that pgloader has support for? It might be best for pgloader to learn how to read .my.cnf?

Yes sure.

This is documented in the https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/environment-variables.html page and MYSQL_GROUP_SUFFIX is described in https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/option-file-options.html#option_general_defaults-group-suffix

Client Password security is described in https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/password-security-user.html

So in general it is working in the way if you have .my.cnf in your home mysql client will read it for details like:

[client]
host     = <host>
database = <database>
user     = <user>
password = <password>
port     = <port>

At the same time if you have multiple MySQL servers you can or use --defaults-extra-file=file_name switch to tell which mysql file to read or have single file like

[client_1]
host     = <host_1>
database = <database_1>
user     = <user_1>
password = <password_1>
port     = <port_1>

[client_2]
host     = <host_2>
database = <database_2>
user     = <user_2>
password = <password_2>
port     = <port_2>

and use MYSQL_GROUP_SUFFIX switch to tell mysql to read or _1 or _2 section.

I hope that this will help on implementation and avoiding password variable export.

Just wondering if you had a chance to have a look.

Not yet no, do you want to have a look at doing it yourself? pgloader already includes a lib that knows how to parse INI files, it should be a nice first patch!

is there any progress on this ?