On fre, 2010-09-24 at 09:50 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > I'm thinking, libpq could really use a global (and, for that matter, a
> > per-user) configuration file, where you could set defaults for some of
> > the things that you currently have to use environment variables for,
> > e.g., sslmode. And then you can configure the system-wide root.crt
> > location there.
>
> We already have this - pg_service.conf - no?
Indeed.
> > Alternatively, if you think that that is overkill, then using an
> > environment variable to configure this feature would be consistent with
> > the existing mechanisms.
>
> So in this case, a "sslfallbackroot=/etc/somewhere" parameter, that
> you could then stick in etc/pg_service.conf, or in any of the other
> places you can specify it? The one thing I think would be really
> needed for that to work is to support wildcard database names in
> pg_service.conf?
Yes.