Re: pgpass hostname and IP address

On 03/09/2018 11:11 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> 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.

That looks promising.

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