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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:54:09 -0500
From: "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>
To: Ignacio Coloma <icoloma-lists@iverdino.com>
Cc: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: running psql in a cron job
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 06:02:39PM +0000, 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

It's not the unix 'postgres' user's password: it's the database password
for the DB user - a completely independent user/password pair.

Ross

> 
> 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