Re: regular backups - super user - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Paul Thomas
Subject Re: regular backups - super user
Date
Msg-id 20031101121336.A9460@bacon
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In response to regular backups - super user  (Jeff MacDonald <info@bignose.ca>)
Responses Re: regular backups - super user  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 30/10/2003 15:29 Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> WHen i run pg_dumpall as the super user [postgres in my case] it asks
> for a password for every database. I don't know my users passwords. Is
> there a way to make the super user able to backup without passwords ?

What version of PG are you using? I've just tried this on my 7.3.4 box and
I don't get asked for user passwords.

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