On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:10:46PM -0400, David Fishburn wrote:
> >> Probably, that's just a minor bug in a function "DB_PGSQL_execSql" - it
> >> constructs command to be executed as
> > Hi Mikalai, thanks for your answer. Your tip was very useful to point
> > me in a good direction.
> > Turns out there is no easy way to pass a password as a command line
> > parameter to psql. You can use -W switch to make psql ask for it but
> > you will have to type it as a second step. I finally created a
> > ~/.pgpass file as suggested here [1] and now dbext is not asking the
> > pass anymore.
> 
> Correct.  PGSQL does not allow passwords to be set from the command
> line which is the reason dbext does not provide it.


You can put the password in environment variable PGPASSWORD.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/libpq-envars.html


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