Re: Maintenance

Raul Carvalho wrote:
>
>  Hello all,
>
>  I am having a problem regarding maintenance of my databases. I have four
> small db's and clients must use password autentication.
>
>  The problem is that when I try to pg_dump any of them, I don't know how
> can I pass username and password. Shouldn't there be a command line option
> to do this? Environment variables are very unconvenient...

echo "username\npassword" | pg_dump -u ....

>  The same problem regarding restoring the database. "cat xpto.dump | psql
> -e dbname" also asks for passwd...

echo "username\npassword" | psql -u -f xpto.dump ....

btw. if executing this from a script I find environment variables more
convenient.

Maarten

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