Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>pg_dumpall doesn't work very well with password authentication (and
>even if it did, storing the password in a cron script doesn't seem
>like a good idea to me).
>
>As long as the dumper will run on the same machine as the database
>server, consider using IDENT authorization instead.
Another solution is to use the patched pg_dumpall at
http://bugs.debian.org/87035 .
Ray
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