Andreas Laggner <andreas.laggner@vti.bund.de> writes:
> Hi list,
>
> i always vaccumed my postgresql automatically with crontab, because
> autovacuum is not suitable for my applications. With version 8.2 it
> works perfect for me with this command line:
>
> 00 02 * * * postgres /usr/bin/vacuumdb -d gis -z
>
> But not with 9.0, because vacuumdb now wants to have the password to
> connect to the db.
> i did not find any options to send the password with the command line
> in vacuumdb!?
Password on command line a bad habit anyway and especially for a
possibly long running job like vacuumdb.
Have a look at setting the pw in the .pgpass file for the invoking user.
If you insist on doing it on cmd line; try;
PGPASSWORD=foo vacuumdb ...
HTH
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