The proposed patch would fix this. Password prompts would go to the
terminal. Right now they got to stderr. Does your stderr go to the
dump file?
> pg_dump does wait for passwords - version 7.1.x.
>
> But the password prompts end up in the dumpfile.
>
> That is to say, the Username: and/or Password: prompts end up in the
> dumpfile and are not displayed on the screen.
>
> Cheerio,
> Link.
>
> At 06:19 PM 14-10-2001 -0600, Keary Suska wrote:
> >Good, good, very good! being one of the people who steadfastly avoids PGUSER
> >and PGPASSWORD for security reasons, it would be nice t be able to do
> > $ psql db user < file
> >As the docs say you can. Would this change also allow the use of:
> > $ pg_dump > dumpfile
> >Which doesn't work when prompting for password, but that can be a stdout
> >issue.
> >
> >I would enumerate these issues as the top annoyances with the postgres
> >client apps. Although I would place them very low compared to being able to
> >alter/remove columns.
> >
> >Keary Suska
> >Esoteritech, Inc.
> >"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
>
>
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