The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/libpq-pgservice.html Description:
Can you please add note about file ".pg_service.conf" default location and default name on MS Windows platform? Why? Accoring to my experience the default location and file name is: "%APPDATA%\postgresql\.pg_service.conf". This is not equal to: "~/.pg_service.conf" Also, (re)naming pattern does not match to ".pgpass" and it is confusing. ".pgpass" is documented for MS Windows. ".pg_service.conf" is not documented and therefore many people assume that similar renaming has to be done. Linux: .pg_service.conf and .pgpass Win : .pg_service.conf and pgpass.conf Reference: There is clear note about "pgpass.conf" file for MS Windows platform: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgpass.html ... On Microsoft Windows the file is named %APPDATA%\postgresql\pgpass.conf (where %APPDATA% refers to the Application Data subdirectory in the user's profile) ...
