Re: Docs for service file

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Here is documentation and a sample file for the libpq service/PGSERVICE
> > capabilithy we added in 2000.  Seems it was never documented.
>
> The reason it was never documented is that the patch was slipped in
> without much discussion and several people were unsure whether the feature
> should exist in the first place, so as long as it isn't documented it
> doesn't really exist.

Oh, that was it.  Yuck.

Well, it seems like a nifty features.  What do others think?  It allows
centralized connection parameters.  I don't particularly like the file
format, but I think it was done to match Oracle.

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