Re: Patch for TNS services

Mario Weilguni wrote:
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> Last week I created a patch for the Postgres client side libraries to allow
> something like a (not so mighty) form of Oracle TNS, but nobody showed any
> interest. Currently, the patch is not perfect yet, but works fine for us. I
> want to avoid improving the patch if there is no interest in it, so if you
> think it might be a worthy improvement please drop me a line.
>
> It works like this:
> The patch allows to supply another parameter to the Postgres connect string,
> called "service". So, instead of having a connect string (e.g. in PHP) like
> "dbname=foo host=bar port=5433 user=foouser password=barpass"
> the string would be
> "service=stupid_name_here"
> or more often
> "service=stupid_name_here user=foouser password=barpass"
>
> There's a config [...]
   IMHO a good idea.


Jan

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