Re: Docs for service file

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>Rather than documenting it and thereby locking ourselves into a
>>misdesigned "feature", I'd vote for removing code and docs too.
>>We can put the concept on the TODO-for-protocol-change list instead.
>
>
> Other votes?

It seems like we're talking about two slightly different features:

a) A centralised file on a local machine that local client apps can use
to co-ordinate port numbers and similar through, and

b) A "service name" that works across-the-wire.  Oracle has something
like this, and has a "service name lookup daemon" thing in place that
remote clients can connect to through TCP in order to find out the
necessary parameters for connecting to a particular service.

We should probably clarify a bit more on things before starting into voting.

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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