Re: .pgpass - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Oliver Elphick
Subject Re: .pgpass
Date
Msg-id 1088976070.6095.5.camel@linda
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In response to Re: .pgpass  (<ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>)
Responses Re: .pgpass
Re: .pgpass
List pgsql-novice
On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 20:41, ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
> + /usr/bin/psql -d template1 -t -q -X
> Password:
> psql: fe_sendauth: no password supplied
>
> My guess is it is that -X (disallow reading of a .psqlrc file) is
> somehow turning off the reading of any .pgpass file.

I can't see how that could be.  -X is a psql option, but .pgpass is read
by the libpq library, which has no knowledge of the psql options.

Can you check that do.maintenance is being run by the correct user? (Put
the line "user identity = `id`" somewhere near the top.)  Also, see if
do.maintenance works when run directly rather than through cron.

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