Re: About pg_dump

Jason Earl wrote:
  >
  >It looks like setting the PGUSER and PGPASSWORD
  >environment variables does the trick.  I don't know
  >where that is in the documentation (PGUSER is in the
  >psql man page, but I wasn't able to find PGPASSWORD).
  >
  >So something like:
  >
  >PGUSER='postgres'
  >PGPASSWORD='secret'
  >export PGUSER PGPASSWORD
  >
  >pg_dump -h mydatahost mydatabase -t mytable
  >
  >Seems work just like you would expect.

However, this is not secure, because the e output format option to ps can be
used to inspect the environment, thus revealing the password.


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