Re: vacuumdb with cronjob needs password since 9.0? SOLVED

thank you depesz, your help was very useful!

Am 12.05.2011 13:19, schrieb hubert depesz lubaczewski:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:56:20AM +0200, Andreas Laggner wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> i always vaccumed my postgresql automatically with crontab, because
>> autovacuum is not suitable for my applications. With version 8.2 it
>> works perfect for me with this command line:
>>
>> 00 02 * * * postgres /usr/bin/vacuumdb -d gis -z
>>
>> But not with 9.0, because vacuumdb now wants to have the password to
>> connect to the db.
> version has nothing to do with it. You had to change pg_hba.conf - most
> likely you changes "trust" authentication for local connections to
> something like md5 or password.
> it works exactly the same way in 8.2 as in 9.0 - if connection has
> "trust" authenticator - password is not necessary.
>
>> i did not find any options to send the password with the command
>> line in vacuumdb!?
> best options are to either use .pgpass file (described here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/libpq-pgpass.html)
> or setup system in such way that postgres user can login locally without
> password, using ident authenticator. be warned though that ident, when
> not well configured, is a common source of problems - described for
> example here: http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2007/10/04/ident/
>
> Best regards,
>
> depesz
>

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