Re: .ini support for .pgpass - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Aidan Van Dyk
Subject Re: .ini support for .pgpass
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Msg-id BANLkTikxfAnTxXkPftrFWHric36KAxnx5g@mail.gmail.com
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In response to .ini support for .pgpass  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: .ini support for .pgpass  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:

> Bare, useful, but not really friendly nor flexible. I would love to be
> able to do this:

> [ecom]
> hostname=
> port=
> database=
> username=
> password=

That looks a lot like a pg_service file.

> psql ecom
>
> boom, I am in.
>
> Thoughts?

So you're really looking to make psql use "service" connection
definitions more easily, not just retrieve the password associated
with the given (maybe defaulted) host:port:database:user, right?

a.

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