On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 05:33:14AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Christopher Browne said: > > > > The notion: Plenty of libraries out there like Pg, DBI::Pg, and such > > make you specify connections in the form: > > "host=my.db.host.example.org port=5678 dbname=dumb_db user=chewie" > > Why is this better than using the service file?
What Andrew asked. Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly