Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> writes:
> I notice pg_dump does'nt have a '-P' flag to provide a password,

~/.pgpass is the preferred solution.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/s...pq-pgpass.html

regards, tom lane

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