Learning is an Art » pgpass.conf http://www.singhvishwajeet.com My experiences Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:03:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 PostgresSQL passing password from command line solution http://www.singhvishwajeet.com/2009/12/13/postgressql-passing-password-from-commandline-solution/ http://www.singhvishwajeet.com/2009/12/13/postgressql-passing-password-from-commandline-solution/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:42:09 +0000 Vishwajeet Singh http://www.singhvishwajeet.com/?p=262 Few days back I was trying to create database in a batch job using createdb.exe and I encountered this problem createdb.exe prompts for password and there is no way of passing password from command line as an argument.
I tried to find out how to do this but in vein there is no way you can pass password as an command line argument; than after looking around for sometime and googling I found two ways of doing it

  • Setting up PGPASSWORD environment variable : This method is not preferable as it’s insecure more for further details read this


  • Setting up password in pgpass.conf : The file is to be located
    %APPDATA%\postgresql\pgpass.conf

File has the following format

hostname:port:database:username:password

Each of the first four fields may be a literal value, or *, which matches anything.

For further details the postgres documentation

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