Re: psql and passwords

On 15 Apr 2002, Doug McNaught wrote:

> "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:
>
> > Anyway, the solution is to set PGPASSWORD in the evironment. Once I
> > remembered about that it all became so much easier.
>
> Note that this is potentially insecure as some systems expose your
> environment to other users.

Indeed. What about adding an option whose argument is the name of
a file containing the password?

cjs
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