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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:26:54 -0800
"Tena Sakai" <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> But in the meantime, maybe I will take a
> bit different approach. Namely:
>
> Is there anyway I can pass the password to
> pg_dumpall via crontab?
You can use a pgpass file as the user calling the cron.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html
Or you can use PGPASSWORD="foo"
But that can be dangerous.
Joshua D. Drake
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