On Jul 23, 6:11 am, r...@xxxxxx ("Raymond O'Donnell") wrote: > On 23/07/2007 11:04, Andy Dale wrote: > > > The posgres command in the loop should look like so (not sure about the > > password): > > As I understand it, you supply the password via a pgpass file - you > can't include it on the command line. > > Ray. > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland > r...@xxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------- FWIW you can supply the password via a PGPASSWORD environment variable, e.g.: prompt$ PGPASSWORD=secret psql -h pghost -U pguser -d thedb -c "SELECT 'x'"