While the fact that you cannot do:
[service_template]
host=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
[service_db1]
dbname=db1
service=service_template
seems obvious there is nothing in the documentation that says this is prohibited; and attempting a simple alias entry:
[realentry]
user=not_system_user
dbname=whatever
[aliasentry]
service=realentry
psql "service=aliasentry"
results in the error:
FATAL: role "system-user" does not exist
Version 9.3
SIDE NOTE: between the "FATAL:" and the word "role" are two spaces instead of what probably should be one.
Anyway,
says that "[...] and the parameters are connection parameters; [...]
and one of those parameters is "service"
I would suggest:
"connection parameters; see Section 31.1.2 for a list but note that you may not include the "service" parameter within the pg_service file (i.e., aliases are not allowed).
Thoughts?
David J.
P.S.
Any chance on actually making this work? The recent comment about "\c service=name" not working properly seems to fall into the same category so maybe fix them both at the same time - though the other issue is probably more of a bug while this is a feature request (unless the interplay is non-trivial)...
I'm going to link to this post and add a comment to that thread.
