Question

I’m going around in circles and so need some help.

I want to be able to run an .sql against a database which is a scheduled task via a bat file. However when i run the bat file manually I get prompted for a password. I enter the password and then get told that….

"psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "(my windows login)"
'-h' is not recognised as an internal or external command, 
operable program or batch file. 

At the moment my bat reads…

@echo off
"D:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\9.1\bin\psql.exe"
-h localhost -U postgres -d database_name -f D:/scripts/SQL/test.sql
pause

First thing, what cmd do i need to add to populate the password request

What am I doing wrong with the rest of the statement to get it to load the .sql

Thanks

Answer 1

by adding this line to your config file (pg_hba.conf), you can tell postgres to allow local connections without authentication

local      <database>  <user>  trust

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/auth-pg-hba-conf.html