Re: restore improvement

Mario Weilguni writes:

> pg_dump, (maybe started with a special flag) if run with superuser rights
> should not issue
>
> \connect - username
> create table foo (...
> copy foo from ...

> This would avoid situations where a restore becomes impossible because
> password authentication is necessary. This would allow restoring without
> having to set trust in pg_hba.conf. A patch would be simple, in fact I wrote
> it within a few minutes.
>
> Or am I completly wrong and there's a better way to accomplish this?

set session authentication 'username';

The command already exists in 7.2devel sources. Feel free to send a patch
to make pg_dump use it. Note that this command requires superuser rights,
so there needs to be an alternative.

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