"Michael Schmidt" <michaelmschmidt@xxxxxxx> writes: > Also, it appears > from the documentation that the PGPASSFILE environmental variable has > been deprecated for pg_dump and pg_restore. Eh? Certainly not ... where did you get that idea? > I would like to ask that we return to outputting the Password prompt on > stderr and accepting password input on stdin. I think it's unlikely we will revert that, as it's been a done deal for several releases now (since 7.4 in fact). regards, tom lane