Re: PostgreSQL Backup Script

vishalonlist@gmail.com ("Vishal Kashyap @ [SaiHertz]") wrote:
> I am stuck with database backup.
> While using pg_dump the utility asks for password but since I require
> this process to be automated the password prompt is giving me
> headaches
> is their any way by which can pass the password automatically.
> Like setting up a variable in php  which passes the password to the
> pg_dump utility on prompt this way the whole process of pg_dump would
> get automated.
> One obvious solution was to use .pgpass but it does not appeal me
> because it is again a security threat.
> any pointers or help may lead to unlocked secret.

You seem to be imagining that there can exist a way of storing some
form of a password in a fashion that allows automating these sorts of
things that _doesn't_ present an identical security threat to that
involved with .pgpass

It may take a bit of thinking about the problem to disabuse oneself of
such fantasies...
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