Re: Migrate HUGE Database

[Warren Young <warren@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim McDaniel wrote:
> I was a bit puzzled seeing "-p database_name", 

...

> How very inconsistent and obnoxious.

It's best to think of -p as never taking an argument, always asking 
interactively.  Many operating systems will let a processes access the 
command line parameters of another process, making it possible to get 
the password in the clear if you pass it to a program this way.  It's 
nice to know that you can pass it this way if absolutely necessary, but 
I try not to use it.

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