| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Docs for service file |
| Date: | 2003-01-07 17:30:56 |
| Message-ID: | 200301071730.h07HUuB27702@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Here is documentation and a sample file for the libpq service/PGSERVICE
> > capabilithy we added in 2000. Seems it was never documented.
>
> The reason it was never documented is that the patch was slipped in
> without much discussion and several people were unsure whether the feature
> should exist in the first place, so as long as it isn't documented it
> doesn't really exist.
Oh, that was it. Yuck.
Well, it seems like a nifty features. What do others think? It allows
centralized connection parameters. I don't particularly like the file
format, but I think it was done to match Oracle.
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