Обсуждение: password option in pg_dumpall

is there anyway of specifying password in the command line interface
of pg_dumpall??

this my script, and it asks for password for every host...
thanks

'''
#!/bin/sh
for line in `cat /home/mark/work/infrastructure/farm_all`
do
pg_dumpall -h $line -U postgres | bzip2 > "$line.bz2"
done
'''

"rkmr.em@gmail.com" <rkmr.em@gmail.com> writes:
> is there anyway of specifying password in the command line interface
> of pg_dumpall??

No, and you wouldn't want to use it if there was (hint: putting a
password on a command line is insecure).

The recommended procedure to avoid a lot of password prompts is to
set up a ~/.pgpass file:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/libpq-pgpass.html

            regards, tom lane