| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: small pg_dump RFE: new --no-prompt (password) option |
| Date: | 2006-12-01 13:13:53 |
| Message-ID: | 20061201131353.GA23594@svana.org |
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 07:46:59AM -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
> >
> I'm forwarding this on behalf of Marc Hebert
I saw it the first time.
> >When we implemented this scripting in Java we faced one major issue:
> >pg_dump may prompt for a password in a unpredictable way (depending on
> >the user misconfiguration). Taking care of this is surprisingly
> >complex. The suggested --no-prompt would make scripting pg_dump
> >infinitely easier. In case a password is needed, this option would
> >simply fail and return immediatly with an appropriate error message.
> >Or even better, with a well-defined return status.
Seems to me that you could just do this by setting stdin to be
/dev/null?
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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