On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:57:55AM +0200, Dominique Devienne wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:17 AM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Or is it instead a lack of symmetry in the implementations of these > > > two mechanisms? > > > > As far as I can see from the code it should be > > %APPDATA%\postgresql\.pg_service.conf > > > > Does this one work? > > Yes it does! Thanks.
Ah great! > > There is a discrepancy (apart from the documentation) as the default > > file name is the same on Linux and Windows. > > The doc is explicit about Windows for the password file, > probably should be for the service file as well IMHO. Yeah I totally agree. I'm attaching a patch for that. > It's unfortunate that the naming conventions are different. > Might need to be warned about in the doc too. My $0.02. I agree that the discrepancy is annoying, but I don't think that we usually add this kind of warning. I didn't do anything about it for now. > > Could also be changed to try both on Windows, with or w/o the leading dot, > but I suspect this kind of change won't be considered worth implementing :). We can't change the default file in older branches obviously, but I'd be a bit worried about changing the default in the next major version either as it would add unnecessary pain for users that do know and rely on the current default. I guess we have to live with it, and properly document it.
>From 27853c7df7ea03b47e0a7f7b609693f8b0789723 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouh...@free.fr> Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 17:42:07 +0800 Subject: [PATCH v1] Document the default location of the PGSERVICEFILE on Windows. Per report from Dominique Devienne. Author: Julien Rouhaud Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFCRh-_mdLrh8eYVzhRzu4c8bAFEBn=rwohomfjcqotscy5...@mail.gmail.com --- doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml index 40035d7656..758e06e610 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml @@ -7788,8 +7788,11 @@ myEventProc(PGEventId evtId, void *evtInfo, void *passThrough) </indexterm> <envar>PGSERVICEFILE</envar> specifies the name of the per-user connection service file. If not set, it defaults - to <filename>~/.pg_service.conf</filename> - (see <xref linkend="libpq-pgservice"/>). + to <filename>~/.pg_service.conf</filename>, or + <filename>%APPDATA%\postgresql\.pg_service.conf</filename> (where + <filename>%APPDATA%</filename> refers to the Application Data + subdirectory in the user's profile) on Microsoft Windows (see <xref + linkend="libpq-pgservice"/>). </para> </listitem> @@ -8163,7 +8166,10 @@ myEventProc(PGEventId evtId, void *evtInfo, void *passThrough) system-wide file. If the same service name exists in both the user and the system file, the user file takes precedence. By default, the per-user service file is located - at <filename>~/.pg_service.conf</filename>; this can be overridden by + at <filename>~/.pg_service.conf</filename>, or + <filename>%APPDATA%\postgresql\.pg_service.conf</filename> (where + <filename>%APPDATA%</filename> refers to the Application Data subdirectory + in the user's profile) on Microsoft Windows; this can be overridden by setting the environment variable <envar>PGSERVICEFILE</envar>. The system-wide file is named <filename>pg_service.conf</filename>. By default it is sought in the <filename>etc</filename> directory -- 2.33.1
