Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> When using the "service" parameter in a libpq connection (e.g., psql
> service=foo), and the service name is not defined in pg_service.conf,
> then the setting is silently ignored and the connection proceeds with
> whatever other settings and defaults apply. That does not look very
> robust. Shouldn't there be an error when a specified service name does
> not exist?
I agree. It leads to strange error messages at least (I didn't want
to connect to port 5432 on localhost?!?), and you could end up
connecting to a different database than you wanted without
noticing it.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
