Re: BUG #16550: Problem with pg_service.conf

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 2:16 PM Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 4:50 PM Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> So the bug is that the pg_service.conf file is not read from this
>>> location.
>>>
>>
>> I can reproduce this after using the EDB installer to install.
>>
>> I create the directory indicated by `pg_config --sysconfdir`, put the
>> pg_service.conf in it, and psql and pg_dump work without setting either
>> PGSERVICEFILE or PGSYSCONFDIR. But pgbench and PgAdmin4 do not work with
>> the service file this way, but do work if I define PGSERVICEFILE, so there
>> does seem to be something buggy going on.
>>
>
> This was on Windows 2019, Windows_Server-2019-English-Full-Base-2020.07.15
> (ami-066a1a3fa81bfbd00). With both 9.6 and 12 (the only ones I tested),
> and I installed both to the default location and a custom location (on a
> fresh machine each time), makes no difference.
>
>
pgbench works just fine on Linux when I execute (no environment variables)
[1] with an appropriate service entry in /usr/local/pgsql/etc. I find it
odd that it wouldn't work on Windows, especially since other programs do
and the connection code for pgbench looks the same as for the others and
doesn't seem to be influenced by conditional compilation.

pgAdmin4 is out-of-scope for this list.

David J.

1. /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pgbench -i "service=postgres"