On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Jesse Burkhardt wrote:
> I am sure many of you have encountered the problems I am experiencing
> with automating the pg_dump command from a cron. The problem arises from
> a failure of this command to use the environmental variable,
> PG_PASSWORD. (PGUSER, on the other hand, is picked up during command
I think the environment variable is PGPASSWORD (no underscore) in at least
7.3 and above. Also, it's somewhat depricated in favor of using the
.pgpass file.