Re: Config file for psql

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Config file for psql
Date: 2006-02-18 19:19:39
Message-ID: 20060218191939.GA1064@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 07:52:22PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> A little while ago there was someone asking for tools to make it easier
> to connect to multiple servers. It occured to me that it might be
> useful to have a config file the way ssh does it:

Something like pg_service.conf? Hardly anybody ever mentions it
even though the libpq documentation refers to it; I wonder how many
people even know it exists.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/libpq.html#LIBPQ-CONNECT
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/libpq-envars.html

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Michael Fuhr

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