On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 02:39:51PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > Right now, pg_service.conf returns "syntax error" if it encounters a parameter > it doesn't know about. > > This seems user-unfriendly, both in the error message (because it really isn't > a syntax error) and in the behaviour itself (because it doesn't work when > sometimes it should). > > For example, if I have a service file with gssencmode=disable set, that > service > file cannot be used by a psql client linked against libpq from version 10. > Even > if the behavior would be identical (since v10 doesn't have gssencmode). > > Is there a particular reason we (1) refuse unknown parameters in the file, and > (2) call it a "syntax error"? > > The documentation just says it's "INI format" file -- though in my experience > most other INI file parsers just ignore extra parameters included..
My guess is that because the file can contain passwords, we want to report as little as possible on error. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee
