Re: pg_service.conf ?

In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, pg@fastcrypt.com (Dave Cramer) transmitted:
> Ever wanted to retract an email after you sent it ? I realized the
> complete stupidity of that statement 30 seconds after I hit send

Well, this is a common enough problem that there are occasions where
people build server-based mechanisms for it...

Oracle has something whose name I misremember where you head to a
server to get the *real* server configuration.

CORBA had this notion with the Naming Service; you start by getting a
connection to a Naming Service object, and then ask where the *real*
services are...

How to do it "right" for JDBC is a good question.  Searching for
.pgpass in $HOME is pretty obvious.  It is less obvious where to
search for pg_service.conf if all that is installed is JDBC, and there
is no PostgreSQL instance around.
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output = reverse("gro.mca" "@" "enworbbc")
http://linuxdatabases.info/info/internet.html
What do you mean "Why's it got to be built?"  It is a bypass.  You've got
to build bypasses.