.pgpass not working?

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#1Yang Zhang
yanghatespam@gmail.com

I'm using the postgresql 8.4.7 in Ubuntu 10.04, and I'm trying to use
.pgpass documented here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html

I have a ~/.pgpass with 600 perms containing:

myhostname.com:yang:yang:mypassword

However, it doesn't seem to get picked up by psql -h myhostname.com.
I also tried explicitly specifying PGPASSFILE, but that didn't work.
Neither that env var nor .pgpass is documented in man psql.

Entering my password manually works, however. (Don't need to specify
username/database since they default to my username, which is also
yang.)

Also tried connecting with psycopg2 via sqlalchemy (connect string
"postgresql://myhostname.com/yang"), and it also didn't auto pick up
.pgpass.

Any hints on what's up? Thanks in advance.

Yang

#2Yang Zhang
yanghatespam@gmail.com
In reply to: Yang Zhang (#1)
Re: .pgpass not working?

Dah, left out the port.

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Yang Zhang <yanghatespam@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm using the postgresql 8.4.7 in Ubuntu 10.04, and I'm trying to use
.pgpass documented here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html

I have a ~/.pgpass with 600 perms containing:

myhostname.com:yang:yang:mypassword

However, it doesn't seem to get picked up by psql -h myhostname.com.
I also tried explicitly specifying PGPASSFILE, but that didn't work.
Neither that env var nor .pgpass is documented in man psql.

Entering my password manually works, however.  (Don't need to specify
username/database since they default to my username, which is also
yang.)

Also tried connecting with psycopg2 via sqlalchemy (connect string
"postgresql://myhostname.com/yang"), and it also didn't auto pick up
.pgpass.

Any hints on what's up?  Thanks in advance.

Yang

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