Postgres pgpass windows - not working
- by Scott
DB: Postgres 9.0
Client: Windows 7
Server Windows 2008, 64bit
I'm trying to connect remotely to a postgres instance for purposes of performing a pg_dump to my local machine.
Everything works from my client machine, except that I need to provide a password at the password prompt, and I'd ultimately like to batch this with a script.
I've followed the instructions here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-pgpass.html
but it's not working.
To recap, I've created a file on the client (and tried the server as well): C:/Users/postgres/AppData/postgresql/pgpass.conf, where postgresql is the db user.
The file has one line with the following data:
*:5432:*postgres:[mypassword]
(also tried explicit ip/dbname values, all asterisks, and every combination in between.
(I've also tried replacing each '*' with [localhost|myip] and [mydatabasename] respectively.
From my client machine, I connect using:
pg_dump -h [myip] -U postgres -w [mydbname] [mylocaldumpfile]
I'm presuming that I need to provide the '-w' switch in order to ignore password prompt, at which point it should look in the AppData directory on the server.
It just comes back with "connection to database failed: fe_sendauth: no password supplied.
Any insights are appreciated.
As a hack workaround, if there was a way I could tell the windows batch file on my client machine to inject the password at the postgres prompt, that would work as well.
Thanks.
