Postgres

[Dick Davies]

* Norman Uittenbogaart <norman at webminded.nl> [1010 16:10]:
> I'm trying to write a backup script for postgres and us a crontab on it.
> In the manual it says for pg_dumpall make $HOME/.pgpass so it won't ask 
> for a password.
> Now I made the .pgpass in root's homedir (i wanted to use root's 
> crontab) paste the password in it, chmod 400 it ...

Can't you just pgdump from the local socket? And not bother with the password
thing at all?


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