There is an alternate solution, which is to launch pgadmin GUI, connect to the database, tick « save password »
Then psql won’t prompt fir password any more.
Pay however attention to the security concern.
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Le 19 juin 2020 à 17:07, Pepe TD Vo <pepevo@yahoo.com> a écrit :
appreciate for clarification, all inputs and teaching me more in PostgreSQL
have a good weekend and happy father's day to all who is Father.
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On Friday, June 19, 2020, 10:57:59 AM EDT, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
On 6/19/20 7:52 AM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 6:58 AM Adrian Klaver <
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> <mailto:
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:
>
> On 6/19/20 6:53 AM, Pepe TD Vo wrote:
> > Thank you sir and I am sorry for the typo not having "--" on
> password.
> > I did spelling out with --password=mypassword
>
> Please go back and read my post again.
>
>
> To be clear, there is no way to supply a password as a command line
> argument. It is fundamentally a bad idea and we don't even make it an
> option.
Actually that is not entirely true, see my follow up post.
>
> You need to decide on one of the actual ways of supplying a password, or
> choose an alternative authentication method like peer.
>
> David J.