> It's deprecated because it's insecure, on platforms where other users can
> see the environment variables passed to pg_dump (which apparently is
> quite a few variants of Unix). You wouldn't pass the password on the
> command line either ...
>
> Painful as .pgpass may be for an admin tool, I do not know of any other
> method I'd recommend on a multiuser machine.
OK, but say you have a phpPgAdmin installation that's servicing 20
users. Then you have to put a .pgpass file in the www home dir (if
there is one) with the usernames and passwords of all those users -
pretty damn annoying...
Chris