Re: chron scripts and pgsql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: chron scripts and pgsql
Date
Msg-id 27822.1049725557@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: chron scripts and pgsql  (Ken Harris <kharris@lhinfo.com>)
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Ken Harris <kharris@lhinfo.com> writes:
> If anyone has a better solution for the username/password, I would love to see
> it, but this works.

In 7.3 you can keep the passwords in a ~/.pgpass file.  You generally do
NOT want to use PGPASSWORD, as on many platforms it is possible for
other people to look at your environment variables.

            regards, tom lane


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