Re: pgpass hostname and IP address

[Ron Johnson]

On 03/09/2018 11:11 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:

On 03/09/2018 08:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:

(8.4 and 9.2, but soon to 9.6)

If we sometimes access a db server by IP address, and sometimes by 
hostname, must we have two entries for each server+user (one with the 
hostname and the other with IP address), or is there a way to put them 
both on the same line?




Not with .pgpass, though there is the service file method:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/libpq-pgservice.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING

service

    Service name to use for additional parameters. It specifies a service 
name in pg_service.conf that holds additional connection parameters. This 
allows applications to specify only a service name so connection 
parameters can be centrally maintained. See Section 33.16.


That looks promising.

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Re: pgpass hostname and IP address

[Adrian Klaver]

On 03/09/2018 08:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:

(8.4 and 9.2, but soon to 9.6)

If we sometimes access a db server by IP address, and sometimes by 
hostname, must we have two entries for each server+user (one with the 
hostname and the other with IP address), or is there a way to put them 
both on the same line?




Not with .pgpass, though there is the service file method:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/libpq-pgservice.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING

service

Service name to use for additional parameters. It specifies a 
service name in pg_service.conf that holds additional connection 
parameters. This allows applications to specify only a service name so 
connection parameters can be centrally maintained. See Section 33.16.




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Re: pgpass hostname and IP address

[Ron Johnson]

On 03/09/2018 10:26 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
On Friday, March 9, 2018, Ron Johnson > wrote:


(8.4 and 9.2, but soon to 9.6)

If we sometimes access a db server by IP address, and sometimes by
hostname, must we have two entries for each server+user (one with the
hostname and the other with IP address), or is there a way to put them
both on the same lin


https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/libpq-pgpass.html

So unless you can make a wildcard work you are stuck with two separate lines.


Yeah, I read that (well, the ones for my ancient versions), but hoped there 
might be something I missed, or some obscure and clever trick.


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Re: pgpass hostname and IP address

[David G. Johnston]

On Friday, March 9, 2018, Ron Johnson  wrote:

> (8.4 and 9.2, but soon to 9.6)
>
> If we sometimes access a db server by IP address, and sometimes by
> hostname, must we have two entries for each server+user (one with the
> hostname and the other with IP address), or is there a way to put them both
> on the same lin
>

 https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/libpq-pgpass.html

So unless you can make a wildcard work you are stuck with two separate
lines.

David J.

pgpass hostname and IP address

[Ron Johnson]

(8.4 and 9.2, but soon to 9.6)

If we sometimes access a db server by IP address, and sometimes by hostname, 
must we have two entries for each server+user (one with the hostname and the 
other with IP address), or is there a way to put them both on the same line?


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Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.