Re: PGPASSWORD and client tools

Please ignore- seems some old mail of mine got sent waaay late...

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>> While fixing the gui for pg_dump and pg_restore, I painfully noticed 
>> there's no option for the password.
>> After some tests, I found that using the PGPASSWORD environment 
>> variable will do the job. I'm a bit irritated that it's marked 
>> "deprecated" in the docs, the .pgpass solution isn't a good one for 
>> tool managed passwords.
>> Hopefully PGPASSWORD won't vanish until there's another solution to 
>> execute pgsql client tools...
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andreas
>>
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