On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 07:47 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On tis, 2011-04-05 at 16:04 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Well any libpq app but yes. I actually wonder as to the legitmacy of > > having both a pgpass and a pg_service. Why not just one of them? > > So you can keep passwords in a safer place (= less permissions) than the > rest of the connection information. > > Note also that .pgpass is a mapping from connection information to > password, whereas pg_service.conf is a mapping from service name to > connection information. So they operate on different levels. > > It's not actually clear from your syntax example what semantics you are > trying to achieve.
I want to achieve two things: 1. More understandable .pgpass format. Yes, I understand our standard format, most people won't. Like JoshB said, hard to debug. 2. psql foo, gets me into foo. A macro for connections if you will. JD > > -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
