[GENERAL] password option in pg_dumpall

2008-02-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is there anyway of specifying password in the command line interface of pg_dumpall?? this my script, and it asks for password for every host... thanks ''' #!/bin/sh for line in `cat /home/mark/work/infrastructure/farm_all` do pg_dumpall -h $line -U postgres | bzip2 $line.bz2 done '''

Re: [GENERAL] password option in pg_dumpall

2008-02-07 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there anyway of specifying password in the command line interface of pg_dumpall?? No, and you wouldn't want to use it if there was (hint: putting a password on a command line is insecure). The recommended procedure to avoid a lot of password