Re: Pgagent is not reading pgpass file either in Windows or Linux. - Mailing list pgsql-general

I have figured out the issue with pgAgent both in Windows and Linux. 

PgAgent seems to ignore pgpass.conf/.pgpass whenever it has 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1:5432:*:postgres:postgres) throws an error:

    DEBUG: Creating DB connection: user=postgres port=5432 hostaddr=127.0.0.1 dbname=linuxpostgresdb

    WARNING: Couldn't create the primary connection (attempt 1): fe_sendauth: no password supplied

The solution could be update .pgpass to have ( localhost:5432:*:postgres:postgres ) and then pgagent works fine without issues.

I think, pgagent is not inline with libpq.dll while passing host address parameter. I have raised this concern with pgagent github where exactly they need to change

the code in order for pgagent to be in line with psql program. 

https://github.com/postgres/pgagent/issues/14

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 9:43 AM, nageswara Bandla <nag.bandla@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 5:16 PM, George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> wrote:

On Thu, 31 May 2018 15:40:21 -0500, nageswara Bandla
<nag.bandla@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:57 PM, George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
>wrote:
>
>> It just occurred to me that you said PGPASSFILE was set to
>>
>>     %APPDATA%/postgresql/pgpass.conf
>>
>>
>> The problem may be that when LocalSystem expands %APPDATA%, it is
>> finding its own directory, which might be any of:
>>
>>    C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\appdata
>>    C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData
>>    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData
>>
>> depending on your Windows version, policies (if any), and whether the
>> executable is 32 or 64 bit.
>>
>>
>> I wouldn't try messing with any of these directories. Instead try
>> setting PGPASSFILE to the full path to your file.
>>
>>
>I have tried all of them, pgagent is not recognizing any of the above
>locations. In fact, I have tried both options
>
> #1. By defining PGPASSFILE to the above locations one after the other.
> #2. By copying pgpass.conf to all the three locations by creating
>Roaming/postgresql directories.
>
>And also I have defined PGPASSFILE=C:\pgpass.conf; I think, this should be
>accessible to any system account. This also not working.


One more stupid question and then I'm out of ideas ...


Have you rebooted after changing the environment variable? 

Global environment changes normally don't take effect until the user
logs out/in again.  LocalSystem is not an interactive user - you have
to restart the system to let it see environment changes.  PITA.

Yes, I did. But no luck..I guess, we have to live with this problem for pgagent running as a Local System account.

We need to run pgagent service as  "Logon user account" and provide user logon credentials for running pgagent service.

In Linux case, pgagent is not even reading .pgpass itself. The issue here is that the logs (debug level log) are no help. It don't have much information. 

Which password file it is trying to read. 

 

 

George