| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Mike Miller" <temp6453(at)hotmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Standard Input Passwords? |
| Date: | 2003-07-31 21:08:56 |
| Message-ID: | 19154.1059685736@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Mike Miller" <temp6453(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> pg_dump -h server -Of ./temp.dmp -u username << END
> username
> password
> END
> This worked until I upgraded to 7.3.3 from 7.1.3. Any ideas why this would
> happen and how to work around it to get automatic scriped dumps?
This is a deliberate change for security purposes: it wants to read the
password from /dev/tty not stdin.
I'd recommend that you abandon this approach and start keeping your
passwords in ~/.pgpass, instead. See
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/libpq-pgpass.html
regards, tom lane
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