Re: trouble with pg_dumpall - Mailing list pgsql-admin

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:26:54 -0800
"Tena Sakai" <[email protected]> wrote:


> But in the meantime, maybe I will take a
> bit different approach.  Namely:
> 
> Is there anyway I can pass the password to
> pg_dumpall via crontab?

You can use a pgpass file as the user calling the cron.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html

Or you can use PGPASSWORD="foo"

But that can be dangerous.

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