In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 8 feb, 10:27, Maƫl Benjamin Mettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > flupke schrieb:
> > > i made a backup script to backup my postgres database.
> > > Problem is that it prompts for a password. It thought i
> > > could solve this by using popen2.
> >
> > Use pexpect:http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/
> 
> pexpect could work. But a better way would be to supply the password
> on the command line. I don't know how postgres does that things, but I
> hope there is some way to automate the backup process...

See the Postgres documentation for the .pgpass  file.

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