While the fact that you cannot do:
[service_template]
host=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
[service_db1]
dbname=db1
service=service_template
seems obvious there is nothing in the documentation that says this is
prohibited; and attempting a simple alias entry:
[realentry]
user=not_system_user
dbname=whatever
[
CREATE FUNCTION varfunc (fixed1 text, VARIADIC vars text[]) [...]
SELECT varfunc('text fixed 1'); -- error: function signature not found;
thus the number of supplied variadic values must be >= 1
This:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/xfunc-sql.html
Describes how to invoke a function de