| From: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PGPASSWORD and client tools |
| Date: | 2004-08-19 01:38:16 |
| Message-ID: | 41240488.8040404@familyhealth.com.au |
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> While fixing the gui for pg_dump and pg_restore, I painfully noticed
> there's no option for the password.
> After some tests, I found that using the PGPASSWORD environment variable
> will do the job. I'm a bit irritated that it's marked "deprecated" in
> the docs, the .pgpass solution isn't a good one for tool managed passwords.
> Hopefully PGPASSWORD won't vanish until there's another solution to
> execute pgsql client tools...
I didn't notice it was deprecated either - it's the only way that
phpPgAdmin can integrate with pg_dump...
Chris
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