Re: [GENERAL] .pgpass not working

2012-05-08 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi Ben I had saved the .pgpass file in my home directory /home/user/.pgpass which works when I'm logged in as user. However, in order for me to use Slony, I had to be logged in as postgres user. I installed strace and ran my pg_dump test and found that it actually looks for the .pgpass file in

[GENERAL] .pgpass not working

2012-05-04 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi Apologies in advance if this is the wrong place to ask. I have Postres 8.4 and I am setting up replication with Slony. I'm having password issues with slony. I have roamed the net for a solution and the way to fix it is to use the .pgpass file or change pg_hba.conf to accept trusted

Re: [GENERAL] .pgpass not working

2012-05-04 Thread Tom Lane
Rebecca Clarke r.clark...@gmail.com writes: I'm having password issues with slony. I have roamed the net for a solution and the way to fix it is to use the .pgpass file or change pg_hba.conf to accept trusted connections. I do not want to touch the pg_hba.conf so I have generated the .pgpass

Re: [GENERAL] .pgpass not working

2012-05-04 Thread Ben Chobot
On May 4, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Rebecca Clarke wrote: I do not want to touch the pg_hba.conf so I have generated the .pgpass file. The permissions is set to 600, and I have correctly inputted the details into .pgpass, there are no leading spaces. myhostname:myport:*:postgres:mypassword

[GENERAL] .pgpass not working?

2011-04-08 Thread Yang Zhang
I'm using the postgresql 8.4.7 in Ubuntu 10.04, and I'm trying to use .pgpass documented here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html I have a ~/.pgpass with 600 perms containing: myhostname.com:yang:yang:mypassword However, it doesn't seem to get picked up by psql -h

Re: [GENERAL] .pgpass not working?

2011-04-08 Thread Yang Zhang
Dah, left out the port. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Yang Zhang yanghates...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using the postgresql 8.4.7 in Ubuntu 10.04, and I'm trying to use .pgpass documented here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html I have a ~/.pgpass with 600 perms