Re: pgpass hostname and IP address

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.

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Adrian Klaver
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