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Subject: Re: running psql in a cron job
From: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
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PGPASSWORD=my_pass sets the password to my_pass.

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 14:02, Ignacio Coloma wrote:
> Maybe I'm a bit lost: if cron is executed as root, then su <user> -c 
> 'command' would work without providing the password?
> 
> I mean, putting the password plain text anywhere doesn't seem that nice 
> idea imho
> 
> Wei Weng wrote:
> 
> >never mind. a quick search in the mailing list archive solved the
> >problem. :)
> >
> >Just use PGPASSWORD=my_pass psql -c "VACUUM ANALYZE" -d my_data -U
> >my_user
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 10:51, Wei Weng wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>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
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>Wei Weng
> >>Network Software Engineer
> >>KenCast Inc.
> >>
> >>
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Wei Weng
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