postgres backup script and popen2

[Gabriel Genellina]

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. I don't know how postgres does that things, but I
hope there is some way to automate the backup process...

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Gabriel Genellina