Re: .ini support for .pgpass

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:52 -0400, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> 
> > Bare, useful, but not really friendly nor flexible. I would love to be
> > able to do this:
> 
> > [ecom]
> > hostname=
> > port=
> > database=
> > username=
> > password=
> 
> That looks a lot like a pg_service file.
> 
> > psql ecom
> >
> > boom, I am in.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> So you're really looking to make psql use "service" connection
> definitions more easily, not just retrieve the password associated
> with the given (maybe defaulted) host:port:database:user, right?

Well any libpq app but yes. I actually wonder as to the legitmacy of
having both a pgpass and a pg_service. Why not just one of them?

JD

> 
> a.
> 
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