Re: Authentication in batch processing

Alfred Anzlovar wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > How about PGUSER/PGPASSWORD?  That will work.  This is assuming you
> > don't have an OS (BSD?) that displays environment variables for a
> > process.
>
> No BSD, Linux. And it works. Thanks.
>
> Well, I must admit we had some rain today, but after your answer sun came
> from behind the clouds :)
>
> More thanks and greetings from the Sunny side of the Alps.
> Alfred Anzlovar

7.3 may remove PGPASSWORD, I think, and instead allow you to specify a
file that contains the password.

> PS
> Is it ok to send e-mail to pgsql-admin@postgresql.org AND TO you?

Yes, of course.

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