Re: running psql in a cron job

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 06:02:39PM +0000, Ignacio Coloma wrote:
> Maybe I'm a bit lost: if cron is executed as root, then su <user> -c 
> 'command' would work without providing the password?
> 
> I mean, putting the password plain text anywhere doesn't seem that nice 
> idea imho

It's not the unix 'postgres' user's password: it's the database password
for the DB user - a completely independent user/password pair.

Ross

> 
> Wei Weng wrote:
> 
> >never mind. a quick search in the mailing list archive solved the
> >problem. :)
> >
> >Just use PGPASSWORD=my_pass psql -c "VACUUM ANALYZE" -d my_data -U
> >my_user