supply user/pass to pg_dump noninteractive

Peter Pilsl writes:

for backup-purposes I'd like to run pg_dump in a script. Is there any
easy way to provide the user/pass-information noninteractive or do I
need to change the source/provide a wrapper ?

Try one of

export PGPASSWORD=foo
pg_dump

or

(echo "username"; echo "password") | pg_dump

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