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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:19:39 -0700
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Config file for psql
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 07:52:22PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> A little while ago there was someone asking for tools to make it easier
> to connect to multiple servers. It occured to me that it might be
> useful to have a config file the way ssh does it:

Something like pg_service.conf?  Hardly anybody ever mentions it
even though the libpq documentation refers to it; I wonder how many
people even know it exists.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/libpq.html#LIBPQ-CONNECT
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/libpq-envars.html

-- 
Michael Fuhr