Hi,

surely you are right. I´m still using 7.2.3 as production database, so I
have no experience with .pgpass. Where to put .pgpass if you use pg_dump
from a PHP script and the database user is not a system user?

Greetings,

Frank Finner


On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:17:26 -0400 Andrew Sullivan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sat down, thought long and then wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:20:38PM +0200, Frank Finner wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > with PostgreSQL you can do it using the environment variables PGUSER
> > and PGPASSWORD for example in a shellscript like this (bash-syntax):
>   ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> But note that that isn't safe.  If you're using >= 7.3, you can use
> .pgpass instead, which is much safer.
> 
> A

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