Patrick Lademan <mjfrog14(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I have been trying to setup a simple backup job to backup up the individual
> schemas but I cannot get it postgres to utilize the .pgpass password file.
The .pgpass file has to not be readable/writable by anyone but you
(permissions rw------- or less). Since you didn't mention checking
permissions, my money is on it being a permissions issue.
regards, tom lane