Re: Scripting issue

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:08:56AM -0700, Scott Wells wrote:
> I am trying to script a pg_dumpall command set to use in a crontab
> entry.
> The problem I am finding is that the command pg_dumpall seems to be
> ignoring the -W input.

not sure what you mean by -W input. -W is a switch to force tools to ask
for password.

> (I get password prompts on all 4 instances within the DB.)
> It is happening on a Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 server and PostgreSQL
> 8.3.5 as well as 8.3.7

use pgpass file, as described in here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html

Best regards,

depesz

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