Re: PGPASSWORD and client tools - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: PGPASSWORD and client tools
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Msg-id 4124046B.2000704@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to PGPASSWORD and client tools  (Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>)
Responses Re: PGPASSWORD and client tools
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> While fixing the gui for pg_dump and pg_restore, I painfully noticed 
> there's no option for the password.
> After some tests, I found that using the PGPASSWORD environment variable 
> will do the job. I'm a bit irritated that it's marked "deprecated" in 
> the docs, the .pgpass solution isn't a good one for tool managed passwords.
> Hopefully PGPASSWORD won't vanish until there's another solution to 
> execute pgsql client tools...
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
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