Re: request for feature: psql 'DSN' option

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: request for feature: psql 'DSN' option
Date: 2006-07-07 11:33:40
Message-ID: 20060707113340.GA6110@fetter.org
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On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 05:33:14AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Christopher Browne said:
> >
> > The notion: Plenty of libraries out there like Pg, DBI::Pg, and such
> > make you specify connections in the form:
> > "host=my.db.host.example.org port=5678 dbname=dumb_db user=chewie"
>
> Why is this better than using the service file?

What Andrew asked.

Cheers,
D
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