Re: .ini support for .pgpass

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:55:04PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> I want to achieve two things:
>
> 1. More understandable .pgpass format. Yes, I understand our standard
> format, most people won't. Like JoshB said, hard to debug.

This I understand.

> 2. psql foo, gets me into foo. A macro for connections if you will.

But this is precisely what the service file achieves, right? ISTM what
you d like is to be able to specify the password in the service file,
in which case pgpass is not consulted.

Have a nice day,
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