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From: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: Michael Fuhr <[email protected]>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Config file for psql
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:37:44 -0500
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Michael Fuhr wrote:

>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
>
>  
>

This needs a LOT more prominence. We probably need to refer to these 
things on the manual pages for each of the libpq clients we have. 
Haven't we learned that lesson from .pgpass ? The number of people who 
read the libpq docs is probably vanishingly small.

cheers

andrew

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