Re: password error in batch script

On 7/27/23 16:45, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 7/27/23 1:17 PM, Atul Kumar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a password Vl=SO*CIz%A83FQF that is working fine like that in the
>> command prompt but when it is being used in a batch file it is giving me
>> an error of wrong password, the password is something looks like that in
>> batch script.
>>
>> set "PGPASSWORD=Vl=SO*CIz%A83FQF"

Also, the first double quote seems to be in the wrong position. This is the
canonical way to define a string:

set PGPASSWORD="Vl=SO*CIz%A83FQF"

>
> More information needed.
>
> 1) What sort of batch script; shell, Python, etc?
>
> 2) OS and version.
>
> 3) What is set pointing at?
>
> 4) PGPASSWORD is an environment variable per:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/libpq-envars.html
>
> So I would expect export PGPASSWORD = .
>
> 5) Why not use pgpass?:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgpass.html
>
>>
>> Could you please help me in getting this password read by command prompt
>> in the batch file.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards.
>
>

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