Re: [GENERAL] mild modification to pg_dump

What about the pgpass file?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/libpq-pgpass.html

On 11/17/2017 03:06 PM, marcelo wrote:
> I need to "emulate" the pg_dump code because the password prompt. Years 
> ago I write a program (for the QnX environment) that catched some prompt 
> and emulates the standard input. I don't like to do that again.
>
> On 17/11/17 17:23, John R Pierce wrote:
>> On 11/17/2017 12:19 PM, marcelo wrote:
>>> Sorry, I was not exact.
>>> I don't need nor like to change pg_dump. Rather, based on pg_dump code, 
>>> I need to develop a daemon which can receive a TCP message (from a 
>>> privileged app) containing some elements: the database to dump, the user 
>>> under which do that, and his password. (My apps are using that same 
>>> data, of course, encripted to the common users).
>>
>>
>> I would just fork pg_dump to do the actual dump rather than try and 
>> incorporate its source code into your app.
>>
>


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