Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
It's deprecated because it's insecure, on platforms where other users can
see the environment variables passed to pg_dump (which apparently is
quite a few variants of Unix).  You wouldn't pass the password on the
command line either ...

Painful as .pgpass may be for an admin tool, I do not know of any other
method I'd recommend on a multiuser machine.


OK, but say you have a phpPgAdmin installation that's servicing 20 users. Then you have to put a .pgpass file in the www home dir (if there is one) with the usernames and passwords of all those users - pretty damn annoying...

Even worse, if you have a server registered more than once with different credentials...
I tried redirecting pg_dump's stdin but that locked up under win32.


Regards,
Andreas

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