Re: psql shell with no password prompt

You can set user and password with environment variables (PGUSER and
PGPASSWORD) , also in a Windows batch or program.

SET PGPASSWORD=xxxyyyzzz
psql -U "dbadmin" -d mydb -f D:\script.sql

Regards

Walter

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:53 PM, <Steve(dot)Toutant(at)inspq(dot)qc(dot)ca> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I created several SQL that are automatically executed via windows task
> scheduler, here is an example
> psql -U "dbadmin" -d mydb -f D:\script.sql
>
> It was running well until I changed the user (to open a session) associated
> to these task.
> The script prompt for a password for user dbadmin.
>
> How to avoid that? I guess there is a config so dbadmin will "trust" this
> new user....
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Steve
>
>