The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 15961
Logged by: Robert Patrick
Email address: rhpatrick@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 11.4
Operating system: Amazon Linux
Description:
I understand why psql does not include a mechanism to pass the password on
the command-line. Having worked with and built other similar applications
at Oracle, I tried to pipe the password into stdin of the psql command like
so:
echo P0stgr3s | psql --username=postgres
Unfortunately, psql ignores it and prompts me for the password.
My use case is that I am writing terraform scripts to standup Sonarqube in
AWS. After creating the AWS RDS PostgreSQL database, I need to be able to
create the sonarqube user and grant access to the sonarqube database that
was created with the RDS instance. I can work around this using the
PGPASSWORD environment variable but that seems to be deprecated. I don't
want to use the .pgpass solution since I don't want/need the postgres user's
credentials in my EC2 instance where the Sonarqube server will be running...
psql should really accept the value for the password prompt from stdin.
