Hi Ben
I had saved the .pgpass file in my home directory /home/user/.pgpass which works when I'm logged in as user. However, in order for me to use Slony, I had to be logged in as postgres user.
I installed strace and ran my pg_dump test and found that it actually looks for the .pgpass file in /var/lib/postgresql (which I'm assuming is the postgres users home directory as this is the directory where I begin in when I log in).
I made a copy of the .pgpass and saved it in that location and it worked!
Many thanks.
Rebecca
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Ben Chobot
<bench@silentmedia.com> wrote:
On May 4, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Rebecca Clarke wrote:
I do not want to touch the pg_hba.conf so I have generated the .pgpass file.
The permissions is set to 600, and I have correctly inputted the details into .pgpass, there are no leading spaces.
myhostname:myport:*:postgres:mypassword
However I am still prompted for a password.
I have tested pg_dump as well and it prompts also.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what may be the culprit. Is there somewhere I need to specify to tell the system to look into the .pgpass file?
Where is the .pgpass file? If it's not in ~/.pgpass or doesn't have the right ownership (your permissions are good) then it won't be used. If it's in a different location, you might need to make use of the PGPASSFILE environment variable.
If you really get stuck, you can always strace psql or pg_dump and see if it has problems opening your .pgpass file.