Re: create batch script to import into postgres tables

On 6/19/20 7:52 AM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 6:58 AM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com 
> <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 6/19/20 6:53 AM, Pepe TD Vo wrote:
>      > Thank you sir and I am sorry for the typo not having "--" on
>     password.
>      > I did spelling out with --password=mypassword
> 
>     Please go back and read my post again.
> 
> 
> To be clear, there is no way to supply a password as a command line 
> argument.  It is fundamentally a bad idea and we don't even make it an 
> option.

Actually that is not entirely true, see my follow up post.

> 
> You need to decide on one of the actual ways of supplying a password, or 
> choose an alternative authentication method like peer.
> 
> David J.
> 


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