pg_dump does wait for passwords - version 7.1.x. But the password prompts end up in the dumpfile.
That is to say, the Username: and/or Password: prompts end up in the dumpfile and are not displayed on the screen. Cheerio, Link. At 06:19 PM 14-10-2001 -0600, Keary Suska wrote: >Good, good, very good! being one of the people who steadfastly avoids PGUSER >and PGPASSWORD for security reasons, it would be nice t be able to do > $ psql db user < file >As the docs say you can. Would this change also allow the use of: > $ pg_dump > dumpfile >Which doesn't work when prompting for password, but that can be a stdout >issue. > >I would enumerate these issues as the top annoyances with the postgres >client apps. Although I would place them very low compared to being able to >alter/remove columns. > >Keary Suska >Esoteritech, Inc. >"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
