Re: psql and passwords

"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:

> I don't know when the change was made but it never worked for me,
> and I'm sure that included 7.0.2 if not 6.5.1
> 
> 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.

-Doug
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