On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 05:03 +0000, Niels Jespersen wrote: > I just found out about the pg service file. > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgservice.html > > I don’t know why it took me so long finding this. I have been looking for > ways to abstract physical details of data location away for clients (much > like Oracle’s tnsnames). > > Want to move a cluster to a new host. Sure, move it, edit pg_service.conf and > clients will not know the difference. > > It works great for at least psql and psycopg2. > > But I cannot find anything on pg_service.conf and the Postgres ODBC driver > and Npgsql for .Net > > I know pg_service.conf support is implemented through libpq and support for > rivers not using libpq is not a given thing. > > But I think the need for the abstraction of connection details is a general > one. > > Can anyone shed som light on the ubiquitousness of support for > pg_service.conf?
You got it right: pg_service.conf is only used by libpq, so all clients that use libpq automatically support it. Other clients don't support it. For your examples that means: - The PostgreSQL ODBC server can use pg_service.conf - NpgSQL cannot use the file. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com
