Re: Move cluster to new host, upgraded version

On 11/13/18 3:47 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
>> Looks like the pg_dumpall '-h' option will act on the other host's data
>> directory.
> 
>    Worked as advertised. Just read the dumped file into the new 11.1 data
> directory.
> 
>    The new installation is asking for my password to access my databases.
> Where do I turn this off?

You have two options:

1) The preferred one. Keep the password and create a .pgpass file to 
hold the password:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/libpq-pgpass.html

My guess is you had one on the other machine.

2) Change your auth method in pg_hba.conf:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/client-authentication.html
> 
> Rich
> 
> 


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