Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I thought he was more concerned about removing envirnment variables
> that have to be tuned for each user. Let's see how he responds.
Think about a web server talking to a database server. Where do you set
the environment variables for that? Or where is the "home directo
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> BTW, why is it that pg_service.conf is system-wide? Personally I'd
> >> think it more useful to seek settings in ~/.pg_service.conf.
>
> > Perhaps the solution is to allow an environment variable to point to the
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> BTW, why is it that pg_service.conf is system-wide? Personally I'd
>> think it more useful to seek settings in ~/.pg_service.conf.
> Perhaps the solution is to allow an environment variable to point to the
> services file.
Peter was
Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Regardless of this particular issue, I think it would be useful if,
> > under some conditions to be identified, some service were taken as
> > default if nothing is specied in libpq. That would eliminate the need
> > to set envi
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Regardless of this particular issue, I think it would be useful if,
> under some conditions to be identified, some service were taken as
> default if nothing is specied in libpq. That would eliminate the need
> to set environment variables, which i
Tom Lane wrote:
> Hm. I'm of the opinion that the real problem here is the code's
> assumption that it is reasonable to force dbname = servicename when
> the service file doesn't say any such thing. For all other
> parameters, omitting the parameter from pg_service.conf causes the
> standard defa
Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > When a client connects to the database server using a service name,
> > the dbname parameter in pg_service.conf is ignored. In the absence
> > of an explicitly-named database in the connection string, the service
> > name is used as th
Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When a client connects to the database server using a service name,
> the dbname parameter in pg_service.conf is ignored. In the absence
> of an explicitly-named database in the connection string, the service
> name is used as the database name regardless
