Re: pgpass hostname and IP address - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron Johnson
Subject Re: pgpass hostname and IP address
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Msg-id cb405c65-210f-1a5e-e285-da08e096eb82@cox.net
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In response to pgpass hostname and IP address  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
List pgsql-general
On 03/09/2018 11:11 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 03/09/2018 08:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> (8.4 and 9.2, but soon to 9.6)
>>
>> If we sometimes access a db server by IP address, and sometimes by 
>> hostname, must we have two entries for each server+user (one with the 
>> hostname and the other with IP address), or is there a way to put them 
>> both on the same line?
>>
>
> Not with .pgpass, though there is the service file method:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/libpq-pgservice.html
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING
>
> service
>
>     Service name to use for additional parameters. It specifies a service 
> name in pg_service.conf that holds additional connection parameters. This 
> allows applications to specify only a service name so connection 
> parameters can be centrally maintained. See Section 33.16.

That looks promising.

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