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On 15/10/2010 22:12, John Iliffe wrote:
Does anyone have a way to run pg_dump from cron in a way that doesn't
require someone to enter the password on every run?  I get the following
error even when the backup user has read permissions on all application
databases.

You need to use a .pgpasss file:

   http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/libpq-pgpass.html

You can instead specify the password in an environment variable, but that potentially makes it visible to all users on the system, so the .pgpass is better.

HTH,

Ray.


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