+Vladimir On 27 February 2017 at 11:36, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2017-02-27 16:23:46 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> > wrote: > > > On 2017-02-27 14:43:49 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > > > > I bumped into a case where it would have been rather useful to > specify > > > > a service file path in a connection string with a service name. In my > > > > case, I have finished by setting up PGSERVICEFILE, but now like > > > > PGPASSFILE I think that being able to define the service file > > > > available as well as a connection parameter would be useful as well. > > > > > > > > I am not planning to work on that immediately (there is one day left > > > > for the last CF of PG10!), but I was wondering if people would be > > > > interested in something like that. > > > > > > Hm - I'm not sure that's a good idea. service files are a libpq > feature, > > > but connection strings are a bit more universal than just libpq... > > > > > > > That same argument applies to PGPASSFILE, does it not? > > It does. I'm not really convinced it's a good idea to have that as a > full blown parameter, but as you say: > > > Properly implementing PGSERVICEFILE is more complicated though -- as it > > requires LDAP support to go there the whole way for example. > > > > > But it might not hurt to encourage other drivers (such as jdbc) to > > support at least the basic format of pgpass. > > Probably makes sense to bring in some of the external driver authors > (jdbc, npgsql CCed). > > Currently PGPASS is in the users home directory Many JDBC applications are in much larger apps such as tomcat, etal this concept is a bit foreign to JDBC. That being said I don't think it's difficult to implement. Just somewhat harder to specify for us. psql is rather limited being a command line app which is *usually* evoked directly from the command line. Dave Cramer da...@postgresintl.com www.postgresintl.com
