Re: [HACKERS] psql service parameter

2006-09-27 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:23:13AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > I have just noticed that there does not seem to be a psql command > line switch to specify a pg_service.conf name to connect to. I know > we can use a PGSERVICE environment setting instead, but I think we > should have a command l

Re: [HACKERS] psql service parameter

2006-09-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 04:54:35PM +0200, Albe Laurenz wrote: > I think that both would be nice. Indeed, I wanted to suggest > a switch for PGSERVICE myself. It some point I was wondering about using the @ symbol. If you have a service entry called "testserver", you could do: psql @testserver Bu

Re: [HACKERS] psql service parameter

2006-09-27 Thread Albe Laurenz
Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have just noticed that there does not seem to be a psql >> command line switch to specify a pg_service.conf name >> to connect to. I know we can use a PGSERVICE environment >> setting instead, but I think we should have >> a comman

Re: [HACKERS] psql service parameter

2006-09-27 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just noticed that there does not seem to be a psql command line > switch to specify a pg_service.conf name to connect to. I know we can > use a PGSERVICE environment setting instead, but I think we should have > a command line switch too. Small

[HACKERS] psql service parameter

2006-09-27 Thread Andrew Dunstan
I have just noticed that there does not seem to be a psql command line switch to specify a pg_service.conf name to connect to. I know we can use a PGSERVICE environment setting instead, but I think we should have a command line switch too. Small 8.3 TODO item? cheers andrew ---