Re: Authentication in batch processing

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alfred Anzlovar <fredi(at)biff(dot)logon(dot)si>
Cc: Alfred Anzlovar <fuzzy(at)logon(dot)si>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Authentication in batch processing
Date: 2002-07-04 15:23:25
Message-ID: 200207041523.g64FNQY21481@candle.pha.pa.us
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Alfred Anzlovar wrote:
> Maybe this could/can be done differently, but as it was, it was so easy
> and nice. And if there are more of us, poor souls, with comparable
> problems maybe an option called '--pwd-from-stdin-only' would be a
> solution. Another option (thanks God for Open Source projects) is adding
> an option for prompting into psql by myself. But I see this is a rather
> drastic measure to get what I need/want.

How about PGUSER/PGPASSWORD? That will work. This is assuming you
don't have an OS (BSD?) that displays environment variables for a
process.

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