"Viorel Dragomir" <bc@vio.ro> writes:
> In 7.3.x the pg_dump accepts the password only from stdin. The user must en=
> ter his password.
> It's a feature or a bug, because i can't see any logic in this behaviour.
It's a feature ... or at least an intentional change.
If you want to keep your password in a file, see the ~/.pgpass feature.
regards, tom lane