On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 09:39:43 PM Gauthier, Dave wrote: > Then someone who wants to look at old JAN data will have the same problem > :-( > > If I recall, Oracle enables something like this. Multiple tnsfilenames (or > something like that). There was a connect layer on the server side that > the DBA had access to where you could do stuff like this. > >> proposed new SQL command: > >>READ USERS MIND; > : > :-) > > Actually, read the DBA's mind. > > How about... > > postgres=# create db_alias FEB to db JAN; > postgres=# drop db_alias FEB;
I would have suggested to use pg_services file as documented at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/libpq-pgservice.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/libpq-connect.html You can think of this as tnsnames replacement. but I am unable to make it work. I don't know what is wrong with this. shridhar@bheem ~$ cat ~/.pg_service.conf [test1] host=localhost dbname=test shridhar@bheem ~$ strace -o psql.strace psql test1 psql: FATAL: database "test1" does not exist shridhar@bheem ~$ grep -i pg_service psql.strace shridhar@bheem ~$ psql test psql (9.2.2) Type "help" for help. test=# \q shridhar@bheem ~$ psql --version psql (PostgreSQL) 9.2.2 -- Regards Shridhar
