Re: Password issue - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 05:53:11PM +0300, Mahmoud wrote:
> Hi all
> I am trying to create a database by passing arguments to
> createdb.exe but createdb always asks me about the password although
> I passed  -W 123 to it.

please check docs for createdb
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/app-createdb.html

-W is not used to provide password at command line.

for providing password check
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/libpq-envars.html
and/or
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html

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