Yes, that part I understood. The issue I was having was that it wasn't finding my actual file that defined the services. Not sure, but I suspect that the issue was that I hadn't fully stopped the service after I defined the environment variable specifying where my pg_service.conf file was located. It seems to working now with a system environment variable and after a reboot.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:09 AM Murtuza Zabuawala < murtuza.zabuaw...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > Hi, > > You need to provide your service name in *Service *field which is > located under the connection tab. > Please refer https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/4.17/server_dialog.html > > -- > Regards, > Murtuza Zabuawala > EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company > > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 8:34 PM Robert Fazio <dba...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> I seem to be unable to find a way to get PGAdmin to use a service >> configuration file on my windows system. >> I have tried using the PGSERVICEFILE environment variable to specify one, >> as well as multiple attempts to guess at where it might be looking for a >> file named either .pg_service.conf or pg_service.conf. >> >> I haven't had any issues doing this on Linux, just windows. >> >> Bob Fazio >> email: dba...@hotmail.com >> > -- Bob Fazio email: dba...@gmail.com