Re: psql shell with no password prompt

However, those are deprecated, and the .pgpass is considered the
preferred method.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Walter Willmertinger <willmis(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> You can set user and password with environment variables (PGUSER and
> PGPASSWORD) , also in a Windows batch or program.
> SET PGPASSWORD=xxxyyyzzz
> psql -U "dbadmin" -d mydb -f D:\script.sql
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> Regards
>
> Walter
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:53 PM, <Steve(dot)Toutant(at)inspq(dot)qc(dot)ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I created several SQL that are automatically executed via windows task
>> scheduler, here is an example
>> psql -U "dbadmin" -d mydb -f D:\script.sql
>>
>> It was running well until I changed the user (to open a session)
>> associated to these task.
>> The script prompt for a password for user dbadmin.
>>
>> How to avoid that? I guess there is a config so dbadmin will "trust" this
>> new user....
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> Steve
>

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