On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:05:48AM -0500, Mark Woodward wrote: > Using the "/etc/hosts" file or DNS to maintain host locations for is a > fairly common and well known practice, but there is no such mechanism for > "ports." The problem now becomes a code issue, not a system administration > issue.
Actually, there is, it's in /etc/services and the functions are getservbyname and getservbyport. I wonder if it'd be possible to have psql use this if you put a string in the port part of the connect string. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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