that is exactly my point!
It gives this error: (database: demo, user: demo, password: demo)
$ echo "demo\ndemo" | pg_dump -u demo > r.dump
Connection to database 'demo' failed.
fe_sendauth: no password supplied
Very strange...
Raul Miguel Pinheiro de Carvalho
ISR - Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Porto
e-mail: rmpc@fe.up.pt
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
>
>
> Raul Carvalho wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am having a problem regarding maintenance of my databases. I have four
> > small db's and clients must use password autentication.
> >
> > The problem is that when I try to pg_dump any of them, I don't know how
> > can I pass username and password. Shouldn't there be a command line option
> > to do this? Environment variables are very unconvenient...
>
> echo "username\npassword" | pg_dump -u ....
>
> > The same problem regarding restoring the database. "cat xpto.dump | psql
> > -e dbname" also asks for passwd...
>
> echo "username\npassword" | psql -u -f xpto.dump ....
>
> btw. if executing this from a script I find environment variables more
> convenient.
>
> Maarten
>
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