When you run MySQL commands MySQL, mysqlcheck, mysqdump and psql, psqldump etc; they will pick username & password from this file if you do not provide them as argument (-u and -p). It can save you time. Of course, if you specify username and password explicitly as part of the command’s arguments, they will be used. .pgpass ( for psql client ) test1.net:5432:testdb1:testuser1:testpass1 test2.net:5432:testdb2:testuser2:testpass2
PostgreSQL: The World’s Most Advanced Open Source Relational Database PostgreSQL is arguably the most advance and powerful opensource enterprise class relational database system. It is the object relational database system and provides the most standard compliant system for the Database designers. It provides the complete support for reliable transactions that is (ACID complaint) where ACID stands for Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability. Its advance underlying technology makes it extremely powerful and programmable....
Adminer (formerly phpMinAdmin) is a full-featured database management tool written in PHP. Conversely to phpMyAdmin, it consists of a single file ready to deploy to the target server. Adminer is available for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL, Oracle, Firebird, SimpleDB, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB. install script sudo mkdir /usr/share/adminer sudo wget "http://www.adminer.org/latest.php" -O /usr/share/adminer/latest.php sudo ln -s /usr/share/adminer/latest.php /usr/share/adminer/adminer.php echo "Alias /adminer.php /usr/share/adminer/adminer.php" | sudo tee /etc/apache2/conf-available/adminer.conf sudo a2enconf adminer.conf # restart apache/httpd