On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 09:10 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:55:04PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > I want to achieve two things:
> >
> > 1. More understandable .pgpass format. Yes, I understand our standard
> > format, most people won't. Like JoshB said, hard to debug.
>
> This I understand.
>
> > 2. psql foo, gets me into foo. A macro for connections if you will.
>
> But this is precisely what the service file achieves, right? ISTM what
> you d like is to be able to specify the password in the service file,
> in which case pgpass is not consulted.
Right, as I said (I thought) earlier, after reviewing pg_service it
seems that pgpass is (or pg_service is) redundant. It should be one
file.
JD
>
> Have a nice day,
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