Re: Authentication in batch processing

Alfred Anzlovar wrote:
> Maybe this could/can be done differently, but as it was, it was so easy
> and nice. And if there are more of us, poor souls, with comparable
> problems maybe an option called '--pwd-from-stdin-only' would be a
> solution. Another option (thanks God for Open Source projects) is adding
> an option for prompting into psql by myself. But I see this is a rather
> drastic measure to get what I need/want.

How about PGUSER/PGPASSWORD?  That will work.  This is assuming you
don't have an OS (BSD?) that displays environment variables for a
process.

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