Re: trouble with pg_dumpall

Hi Everybody,

I have turned every stone over and I am
pretty close to convince myself that the
way I am doing doesn't work. I can't
believe I am the one to discover such a
bug. I would love to hear somebody prove
me wrong.

But in the meantime, maybe I will take a
bit different approach. Namely:

Is there anyway I can pass the password to
pg_dumpall via crontab?

Maybe via argv? Then I would be able to
say via crontab entry:

xx xx * * * bash /usr/local/pgsql/cronbase/moo.sh "password!"

Of course, what I am stating above doesn't work.
I am asking if you have any suggestion in a
similar fashion.

I am all ears.

Regards,

Tena Sakai
tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org on behalf of Tena Sakai
Sent: Wed 2/27/2008 5:40 PM
To: Phillip Smith; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] trouble with pg_dumpall

Hi Phillip,

Thank you for your suggestion. So my script
file now looks like:

#! /bin/bash

PGUSER=postgres
PGDATABASE=canon
PGHOST=vixen
PGPASSFILE=winkwink
PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
export PGUSER PGDATABASE PGHOST PGPASSFILE PGDATA LD_LIBRARY_PATH
# echo +++++++++
# echo PGUSER: $PGUSER
# echo PGDATABASE: $PGDATABASE
# echo PGHOST: $PGHOST
# echo PGPASSFILE: $PGPASSFILE
# echo PGDATA: $PGDATA

filename=`date +%G%m%d.%w`.gz
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dumpall > $filename

and I still get the same output:

Password:
pg_dumpall: could not connect to database "template1": fe_sendauth: no password supplied

I just don't get it...

Tena Sakai
tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Smith [mailto:phillip(dot)smith(at)weatherbeeta(dot)com(dot)au]
Sent: Wed 2/27/2008 5:19 PM
To: Tena Sakai; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] trouble with pg_dumpall

Try explicitly setting those variables in your script:
$PGUSER
$PGDATABASE
$PGHOST
$PGPASSFILE
$PGDATA

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