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Subject: running psql in a cron job
From: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
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My database has "local all password" as its HBA control.

Is there anyway to manipulate psql so that I can somehow put the
password also inside the command line so that I can run psql in a cron
job? (such as psql -c "VACUUM ANALYZE" -d my_data -U my_user)

Thanks

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Wei Weng
Network Software Engineer
KenCast Inc.