On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Marten Lehmann <lehmann(at)cnm(dot)de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to automate some postgresql scripts, but I cannot find a way
> to pass a password directly to commands like pg_dump psql and so on.
> Even a
>
> echo "password" | psql
>
> doesn't work, the password prompt of psql is still waiting.
>
> mysql has the -p option. What would be the postgresql equivalent? I
> don't want to enter passwords dozend times.
>
create a .pgpass file.
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