Re: hiding the postgres password - v8.1.0

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Mr. Dan wrote:

> Is there a way to hide or encrypt the postgres password when the postgres 
> user is required to be the user in a shell script?   This way we could have 
> a function called in a program, and the users could do something with out 
> actually seeing the postgres user password.

See the docs for the .pgpass file, in the libpq section (Interfaces).

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