Re: About pg_dump

Jason Earl wrote:
>
>It looks like setting the PGUSER and PGPASSWORD
>environment variables does the trick. I don't know
>where that is in the documentation (PGUSER is in the
>psql man page, but I wasn't able to find PGPASSWORD).
>
>So something like:
>
>PGUSER='postgres'
>PGPASSWORD='secret'
>export PGUSER PGPASSWORD
>
>pg_dump -h mydatahost mydatabase -t mytable
>
>Seems work just like you would expect.

However, this is not secure, because the e output format option to ps can be
used to inspect the environment, thus revealing the password.

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