Re: Maintenance

Oh, I also tryed some of these:

(echo "user\n"; echo "password\n") | pg_dump.....
echo "user\npassword\n" | .....

It doesn't seem to work, though...

Raul Miguel Pinheiro de Carvalho
ISR - Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Porto
e-mail: rmpc(at)fe(dot)up(dot)pt

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Raul Carvalho wrote:

>
> that is exactly my point!
>
> It gives this error: (database: demo, user: demo, password: demo)
>
> $ echo "demo\ndemo" | pg_dump -u demo > r.dump
> Connection to database 'demo' failed.
> fe_sendauth: no password supplied
>
> Very strange...
>
> Raul Miguel Pinheiro de Carvalho
> ISR - Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Porto
> e-mail: rmpc(at)fe(dot)up(dot)pt
>
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Raul Carvalho wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I am having a problem regarding maintenance of my databases. I have four
> > > small db's and clients must use password autentication.
> > >
> > > The problem is that when I try to pg_dump any of them, I don't know how
> > > can I pass username and password. Shouldn't there be a command line option
> > > to do this? Environment variables are very unconvenient...
> >
> > echo "username\npassword" | pg_dump -u ....
> >
> > > The same problem regarding restoring the database. "cat xpto.dump | psql
> > > -e dbname" also asks for passwd...
> >
> > echo "username\npassword" | psql -u -f xpto.dump ....
> >
> > btw. if executing this from a script I find environment variables more
> > convenient.
> >
> > Maarten
> >
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