I have been stuggling all day with the pgpass ability on 8.0 Postgres - on Windows 2000. I have been to the documentation:<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html> After reading many threads on similar problems, I just cannot seem to get a batch file to recognize that pgpass is there. I have dropped it into the Application data directory postgresql\pgpass.conf of 'Administrator', (My windows username), 'postgres', 'All Users', etc, etc. The contents I have tried for the pgpass file areeach of the combinations of:

localhost:5432:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
127.0.0.1:5432:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
localhost:*:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
127.0.0.1:*:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
...and many others

<dbusername> has been postgres and other test superuser accounts. Nothing seems to work. I have restarted postgres, restarted windows, and it simply wont take..

Regards,
Eric Emerton


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Eric, I will be interested to see someone's response to your message,
because I am having the same problem (in Windows 2003, version 8.0). I want
to use it in a batch file that invokes psql to load a database, etc. without
prompting for a password. I have not tried to use wildcards (defeats the
purpose of what I am doing), but have used the specific values for
hostnameort:database:userassword, with no luck.

I (initially) did not know where %appdata%\postgresql should be; be sure
your pgpass.conf file is in the right place. You can find it by using this
command at the DOS command prompt:
echo %appdata%

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I have been stuggling all day with the pgpass ability on 8.0 Postgres - on
Windows 2000. I have been to the
documentation:<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/i...libpq-pgpass.h
tml> After reading many threads on similar problems, I just cannot seem to
get a batch file to recognize that pgpass is there. I have dropped it into
the Application data directory postgresql\pgpass.conf of 'Administrator',
(My windows username), 'postgres', 'All Users', etc, etc. The contents I
have tried for the pgpass file areeach of the combinations of:

localhost:5432:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
127.0.0.1:5432:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
localhost:*:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
127.0.0.1:*:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
...and many others

<dbusername> has been postgres and other test superuser accounts. Nothing
seems to work. I have restarted postgres, restarted windows, and it simply
wont take..

Regards,
Eric Emerton


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On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:24:45AM -0400, Eric Emerton wrote:
> I have been stuggling all day with the pgpass ability on 8.0 Postgres
> - on Windows 2000. I have been to the
> documentation:<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html>
> After reading many threads on similar problems, I just cannot seem to
> get a batch file to recognize that pgpass is there. I have dropped
> it into the Application data directory postgresql\pgpass.conf of
> 'Administrator', (My windows username), 'postgres', 'All Users', etc,
> etc. The contents I have tried for the pgpass file areeach of the
> combinations of:
>
> localhost:5432:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
> 127.0.0.1:5432:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
> localhost:*:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
> 127.0.0.1:*:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
> ..and many others
>
> <dbusername> has been postgres and other test superuser accounts.
> Nothing seems to work. I have restarted postgres, restarted windows,
> and it simply wont take..

Which program fails, and how does it fail?

You have the correct permissions on the file, I presume? The file
should not be readable nor writable by anyone but the owner; and I
assume the directory where it resides, shouldn't either (In fact I'd
check every directory up in the path.)

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On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 10:24, Eric Emerton wrote:
> I have been stuggling all day with the pgpass ability on 8.0 Postgres - on Windows 2000. I have been to the documentation:<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html> After reading many threads on similar problems, I just cannot seem to get a batch file to recognize that pgpass is there. I have dropped it into the Application data directory postgresql\pgpass.conf of 'Administrator', (My windows username), 'postgres', 'All Users', etc, etc. The contents I have tried for the pgpass file areeach of the combinations of:
>
> localhost:5432:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
> 127.0.0.1:5432:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
> localhost:*:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
> 127.0.0.1:*:<mydbname>:<dbusername>:<the password>
> ..and many others
>
> <dbusername> has been postgres and other test superuser accounts. Nothing seems to work. I have restarted postgres, restarted windows, and it simply wont take..

Has it been set to be readable only by the given user who is using it?

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