Re: Pass password in scripts?

I have two solutions that might help.

PHP:

system("echo -n -e \"".$password."\n\" | pg_dump -W --host=".$host."
-U ".$user." ".$database." > ".$backup_file,$output);

Try replacing pg_dump command with "psql -d database -U user"

BASH:

PGDATABASE=database
PGUSER=user
PGPASSWORD=password

export PGUSER PGPASSWORD

HTH,

Burak

On 2/14/07, Neil Aggarwal <neil(at)jammconsulting(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have several scripts I would like to run against a database.
>
> With mysql, I can pass the password to the database in
> the command line call to the terminal client.
>
> Is there a way to do that with psql?
>
> There is no corresponding user account for
> the database user account.
>
> Thanks,
> Neil
>
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