Re: How to pass the password for login in psql

FYI, this is deprecated in favor of a .pgpass file.

See:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/libpq-pgpass.html

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:01, Oisin Glynn wrote:
> BAT FILE SHOULD CONTAIN
>
> set PGPASSWORD=postgres
> "psql.exe" MYDATABASE -U postgres -f mysqlfile.sql
>
>
> Oisin
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> From: "Josef Springer" <Josef.Springer@JOOPS.COM>
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 1:26 PM
> Subject: [GENERAL] How to pass the password for login in psql
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>
> > Hi,
> >
> > i want to use psql using the --username option. But i do not find an
> > option to pass the password. I want to use psql in a batch, so i want to
> > automate it.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Josef Springer
> >
> >
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