Re: psql password passing problem

Hi,

> I'd like to inform you about the issue of using psql in a dos batch file on
> windows vista.
>
> On linux all is very simple, you can easily write in your script
>
> psql -d mydb -U myuser -f myqry.sql < passw.txt
>
> On windows however, psql does not seem to work like this, nor does
>
> type passwd.txt | psql -d mydb -U myuser -f myqry.sql
>
> work
>
> So I tried using
>
> psql -d mydb -U myuser -f myqry.sql -u PGPASSWORD=xxxxxx
>
> But this does not work either, so I turned to the pgpass.conf file and it
> seemed like that didn't work either because I wrote
>
> 127.0.0.1:5432:mydb:myuser:xxxxxx
>
> so I experimented and the hostname command in my dosbox gave me mistral, so
> I tried
>
> mistral:5432:mydb:myuser:xxxxxx
>
> And this did not work either
>
> so at last I tried
>
> localhost:5432:mydb:myuser:xxxxxx
>
> And this worked. I also noticed that PGadmin also displayed my machine as
> server 8.3 (localhost:5432).
>
> Maybe this can be fixed in the future, that an ip-address or name of
> machine is accepted too ?

The first thing that comes to mind is, what is you; listen_address set to?

HTH.

Regards,

Serge Fonville