AW: Batch: DB password with ">"

There was a space too much between the password and the streaming operator. So the password was extended by a trailing space.
Furthermore you have to escape the >-symbol first with the carret in the windows command shell and then the escape-symbol \ for psql.

echo localhost:5432:postgres:postgres: 7Ug\^>uAks!{VA> %PGPASSFILE%

best regards
Hendrik

Von: Shreeyansh Dba <shreeyansh2014(at)gmail(dot)com>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Oktober 2018 17:17
An: Schenk, Hendrik <hendrik(dot)schenk(at)sieb-meyer(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Betreff: Re: Batch: DB password with ">"

Hi,

You can use below command to get the desired output.

echo localhost:5432:postgres:postgres:7Ug^\>uAks!{VA > %PGPASSFILE%
or
echo "localhost:5432:postgres:postgres:7Ug^>uAks!{VA" > %PGPASSFILE%

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 6:38 PM Schenk, Hendrik <hendrik(dot)schenk(at)sieb-meyer(dot)de<mailto:hendrik(dot)schenk(at)sieb-meyer(dot)de>> wrote:
Hi,

i want to modiy the adatabse via batch script. The user has a password that contains symbols like that “g>uAks!”. The problem here is the “greater than”-symbol.

call set PGPASSFILE=%TEMP%\pgpass.conf
echo localhost:5432:postgres:postgres:7Ug^>uAks!{VA > %PGPASSFILE%

"C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\10\bin\psql" -U postgres

psql will always fail with FATAL: User-Athentification failed. The password was read from ..\Local\Temp\pgpass.conf

If I set a Enviromentvariable and “echo” it, it will not work, because of the >-symbol.

C:\Users\hschenk>set PGPASSWORD=lalal>lala

C:\Users\hschenk>echo %PGPASSWORD%
Lalal

How can I use this with a password like this?