Re: request for feature: psql 'DSN' option - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: request for feature: psql 'DSN' option
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Msg-id 20060707113340.GA6110@fetter.org
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In response to Re: request for feature: psql 'DSN' option  ("Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 05:33:14AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Christopher Browne said:
> >
> > The notion:  Plenty of libraries out there like Pg, DBI::Pg, and such
> > make you specify connections in the form:
> >   "host=my.db.host.example.org port=5678 dbname=dumb_db user=chewie"
> 
> Why is this better than using the service file?

What Andrew asked.

Cheers,
D
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