Re: Providing the password to psql from a script

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:27:07AM +0100, Willem Herremans wrote:
> I am afraid this does not help me very much.
>
> The manpage of psql neither mentions the PGPASS environment variable,
> nor the .pgpass file.

Ok, so they're mentioned in the documentation, one under environment
variables. The other is mentioned in there too, aswell as briefly on the
manpage for pg_dumpall. A quick google should find the details for you.

> I understand that, if the server is configured such that the client can
> authenticate wihout password, that psql does not prompt for a password,
> but it would be a serious limitation for my application that it cannot
> support authenitication by means of password.

You could always redirect the password into stderr, though that's a bit of a
hack. Better just use one of the above supported methods.

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