postgres backup script and popen2

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On 8 Feb 2007 08:23:49 -0800, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>On 8 feb, 10:27, Maël Benjamin Mettler <m... at mediamonger.ch> wrote:
>
>> flupke schrieb:
>> > i made a backup script to backup my postgres database.
>> > Problem is that it prompts for a password. It thought i
>> > could solve this by using popen2.
>>
>> Use pexpect:http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/
>
>pexpect could work. But a better way would be to supply the password
>on the command line.

So that it shows up in `ps' output to anyone on the system? :)

Jean-Paul