Tom Lane wrote:
> It's deprecated because it's insecure, on platforms where other users can
>
>see the environment variables passed to pg_dump (which apparently is
>quite a few variants of Unix). You wouldn't pass the password on the
>command line either ...
>
>Painful as .pgpass may be for an admin tool, I do not know of any other
>method I'd recommend on a multiuser machine.
>
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>
Another possibility would be to add a switch like --password-fd=n
indicating an inherited file descriptor from which the password could be
read. That's not any easier than dynamic .pgpass, but it avoids
all filesystem permissions issues.
