Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Service Name Enhancement - Wildcard support for LDAP/DNS lookup

2014-10-29 Thread Albe Laurenz
I have suggested a similar feature before and met with little enthusiasm: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d960cb61b694cf459dcfb4b0128514c2f34...@exadv11.host.magwien.gv.at I still think it would be a nice feature and would make pg_service.conf more useful than it is now. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Service Name Enhancement - Wildcard support for LDAP/DNS lookup

2014-10-25 Thread Doyle, Bryan
Tom, I believe there are two main concerns that you raise, addressed below: First: > It needs to be a more constrained syntax. > One possibility is to insist that the wildcard be only a part > of the name string, eg > > [myservers-%] > host=%.domain.com > port=5433 > user=admi

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Service Name Enhancement - Wildcard support for LDAP/DNS lookup

2014-10-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Doyle, Bryan" writes: > Would specifying a special value for the service name, perhaps [%], be an > acceptable implementation of this enhancement/fix to my above concerns? > Example: > # comment > [%] > host=%.domain.com > port=5433 > user=admin This doesn't seem like a ter

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL Service Name Enhancement - Wildcard support for LDAP/DNS lookup

2014-10-21 Thread Doyle, Bryan
Hi, I am looking to patch the LDAP Service Name feature and would like some feedback prior to doing so. In general, while I personally view this as a bug fix, it could also easily be considered to simply be an enhancement to current functionality and therefore the below is written as a propos