On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mike Christensen <mike@kitchenpc.com> wrote:
> Okay I found one that I can use..
>
> One question.. Should the connection string in the script have the
> password for "root" hard coded in it? Or will it use a password from
> ~/.pgpass automatically? If so, what user account will it find the
> .pgpass file under? Thanks!
Have the script start pgagent under the postgres account eg;
su - postgres -c 'p/path/to/pgadmin....'
Then it should be able to use postgres' pgpass file. Don't put the
password in the connection string!
--
Dave Page
Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company